Lee GC to leave

Gov. Bill Lee’s top lawyer is preparing to step down from his post to return to the private sector.

Deputy Gov. and General Counsel Lang Wiseman announced his plans Thursday. A former University of Tennessee basketball player and chair of the Shelby County Republican Party, Wiseman was named to Lee's cabinet as the administration prepared in late 2018 to assume power. Wiseman had led Lee’s campaign efforts in Shelby County and before that was, among other things, named by Gov. Bill Haslam to the University of Tennessee Board of Trustees and to the state’s Council for Judicial Appointments.