Tennessee Justice Project names new director

Emily Ogden, an attorney and Gov. Phil Bredesen's legislative liaison for the Department of Children's Services, has been appointed director of the Tennessee Justice Project. She will assume her new role in May.

The Tennessee Justice Project is the local branch of the nationally known Justice Project, headquartered in Washington, D.C.. The group bills itself as a "nonpartisan organization dedicated to fighting injustice and creating a more humane and just world" while "working to increase fairness and accuracy in the criminal justice system."