Nashville Bar Foundation Banquet

Paulette and Hamilton "Kip" Gayden

 Photo: Nashville Bar Association/John C. McLemore

Circuit Court Judge Hamilton “Kip” Gayden confirmed that he will not run for re-election, stepping aside in a race that both David Briley and Wendy Longmire have entered.

Gayden, 82, has been a state trial court judge for 47 years, the longest tenure in the county’s history.