Eleven attorneys have filed the paperwork to be considered for the vacancy on the Davidson County Chancery Court that was created when Judge Richard Dinkins was elevated by Gov. Phil Bredesen to the Tennessee Court of Appeals.
There is still another vacancy on the bench in Nashville; the recent retirement of Judge Walter Kurtz opened up a Circuit Court slot. Applications for that position are due at the Administrative Office of the Courts by 4:30 p.m. tomorrow.
With both selections, the applicants will be interviewed by the Tennessee Judicial Selection Commission and then whittled down to three names submitted to Bredesen, who will then appoint one person from that slate or reject the entire list. If he were to reject the slate, the commission would then give him three new names from which he would have to pick one from the list.
The applicants for Chancery Court are:
Katherine Dent Boyte
Howard, Tate, Sowell, Wilson & Boyte, PLLC
Nashville
Julie M. Burnstein
Attorney/Boult, Cummings, Conners an Berry, PLLC
Nashville
Jefre S. Goldtrap
Attorney/Solo practice
Nashville
William Joseph Haynes, III
Bone McAllester Norton, PLLC
Nashville
Renard A. Hirsch, Sr.
Smith & Hirsch, PLC
Nashville
Alan D. Johnson
Willis & Knight, PLC
Nashville
Irwin J. Kuhn
Dobbins & Venick
Nashville
Russell T. Perkins
Attorney General's Office
Whites Creek
Cristi Eileen Scott
Clerk and Master, Davidson County Chancery Court
Nashville
Sarah Stein
Attorney, Mitch Grissim & Associates
Nashville
Matthew Sweeney
Attorney, Baker Donelson
Nashville
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