Bill Lockett is proud to be from Knoxville and to
call it home. He graduated from the University
of Tennessee with a double major in history and
political science. Bill then attended the Cumberland
School of Law at Samford University, where he was
an Associate Editor of the Cumberland Law Review,
on the Executive Board of Moot Court, President of
the Tennessee Student Bar Association, and selected
to The Order of Barristers. He graduated from law
school in the top thirteen percent of his class.
After graduation Bill returned to Tennessee and
lived in Nashville for one year where he
gained
invaluable experience as a law clerk for Tennessee
Supreme Court Justice Ray Brock, Jr.
When his clerkship ended he came home to Knoxville
and has been engaged in the private practice of law
ever since, the last twenty years with Kennerly,
Montgomery & Finley, P.C.
Bill, his wife Dawn, and their two sons, Trent and
Stephen, live in the Halls community. They are
members of Temple Baptist Church in Powell. Bill is
running in the Republican primary for the important
position of Knox County Law Director and would
be honored to have your vote and support.
This is what Bill Lockett says about the upcoming
election for Law Director:
“With all the controversy surrounding Knox county
government during the recent past, the election for
Law Director is perhaps the most important in the
long history of our county. It is the responsibility
of the Law Director to advise every department in
Knox County government. No other elected official
impacts all departments of county government like
the Law Director does, either for good or ill. It will
be my policy to always strongly advise the deliberative
bodies in Knox County to never conduct business in
secret or behind closed doors, but to do so in view of
the people. No deals, unless those deals are made
in public session with the whole world watching. I
also commit to never hire a family member to work
in the Law Director’s office, or to solicit any other
department or official in Knox County government
to hire a member of my family.”
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