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Scott Lamb has been selected as the new police chief of Newport by the city’s board of mayor and aldermen. Lamb will take over the role on Jan. 16, when Chief Maurice Shults retires. Lamb presently serves as a deputy chief of the department. He has been with the Newport Police Department for 25...

James Brummett, Oliver Springs councilmember and former vice mayor, died Dec. 5, 2023, after a lengthy illness. Brummett served on the Oliver Springs City Council representing Ward 6 for more than a decade and served as vice mayor during his tenure on the board. He was also elected in 2006 to the...

Lynn Carmack has retired after 25 years of service to the town of Collierville. Carmack spent most of her time in Collierville as town clerk but started as a police records clerk in 1985. She held that position for a decade before becoming an administrative secretary in the town’s administration...

Dave Cross has been selected as the new electric director for the city of Oak Ridge. Cross previously served with the Plateau Electric Cooperative for 37 years, retiring from that position in September. For the last 15 of those years, he was CEO of the coop and also served in roles including chief...

Chris Coughlin has been selected as the new assistant city engineer for the city of Jackson. A native of Jackson, Coughlin holds a bachelor’s degree in engineer at Memphis State College – now the University of Memphis. He spent six years with Norfolk Southern Railways and then 33 years with the...

The University of Tennessee Municipal Advisory Service (UT-MTAS) has announced two new team members will be joining the service. 

Desiree Eldridge will be joining MTAS as a library associate in the Knoxville office while John Waddell will serve as a legal consultant in the Nashville office. 

Eldridge...

Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Roger Page will retire after a decade on the state’s highest court. He was first appointed to the court in 2014 by then Gov. Bill Haslam and served as chief justice from 2021 to 2023. A seventh generation West Tennessean, Page earned his law degree from the University...

Kristie Diamond has been selected as the new town clerk for the town of Collierville. Diamond will take over from Lynn Carmack, who retired after 28 years of service. Diamond has been working with the town since 2019 when she was hired as an accounting technician in the finance department. She then...

Austin Clark has been selected as the new public works director for the city of Jackson. Clark comes to Jackson from Clifton where he spent nine years as the city’s director of public works and assistant airport manager. Clark has numerous certificates and licenses in water treatment, wastewater...

Walter Lee, vice mayor of Orlinda, died suddenly Nov. 6, 2023 at the age of 63. Lee first served as a city commissioner for Orlinda in the early 1990s at the time when the town was transitioning for a three-person commission to a five-member city council. He was also instrumental in creating the...

Greg Wood has announced his intention to retire as Crossville’s City Manager, a position he has held since 2017. Before coming to the city of Crossville, Wood served as the county manager of Holmes County, Fla.; Jasper County, Ga.; and Harris County, Ga. He also spent 22 years in the U.S. Air Force...

Jason Ray has been selected as the assistant finance director and treasurer for the city of Tullahoma after the announcement that current Assistant Finance Director Donna Graham will retire in December after 19 years in the position. Ray comes to the city with 25 years of experience in management...