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Court Starts on Page 24 port, 787-1458 Hours: D.A., 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays; child support, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Staff: David Baker, Ritchie Collins, Cecil C. Mills Jr., and Jon “Chal” Thompson are Bell’s assistant district attorneys in Greeneville. Others in the office are Alison Burns, a criminal investigator; April Allen and Angela Breeden, victim witness coordinators; Lori Harmon, administrative assistant; and Lisa Kidwell, secretary. Bell’s Morristown office is served by Kim Morrison, Victor Vaughn, Dan Armstrong and Connie Trobaugh, assistant district attorneys; Kennetta Pratt, criminal investigator; Bobbie Barnhart, victim witness coordinator; and Bobbie Lakins, secretary. Serving Bell’s Rogersville office are Alex Pearson and Kevin Keeton assistant district attorneys; Teddy Collingsworth, criminal investigator; and Rebecca Burchett, secretary. Connie Trobaugh also serves as assistant district attorney in Sneedville.
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Judge Kenneth Bailey Jr. is judge of the General Sessions and Juvenile courts. Gloria Neeley is administrator of the Child Support Enforcement Division. Assistant district attorneys Tina Ailshie and Tara Trent handle child support cases. STATE/COUNTY General Sessions Court General Sessions Court and Juvenile Court (not a court
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of record) are the two state courts that are operated at the county level in Greene County. Location: Greene County Courthouse Phone: 798-1730 Judge: Kenneth Bailey Jr. is judge of the General Sessions and Juvenile courts. Staff: Gene Norton is court
officer for the judge. Role: The General Sessions Judge hears misdemeanor cases and holds preliminary hearings on all felony cases unless the right to a preliminary hearing is waived by the defendant. Sessions Court is also a small-claims court with jurisdiction limited to $25,000. Juvenile Court Location: Greene County Courthouse Phone: 798-1736 Role: Judge Bailey also hears criminal cases involving juvenile defendants as well as petitions for unruly youths, truants and those who have violated a traffic law, curfew or smoking ordinance. In Juvenile Court, Judge Bailey handles all petitions dealing with Greene County children in which there are allegations of abuse, neglect or dependency upon the state, as well as custody and child support issues in paternity cases. Staff: Sandra StanberyFoster sits as juvenile magistrate two days a week. She hears dependency and neglect cases and any other cases designated by Judge Bailey. Rhonda Craft serves the Juvenile Court as the youth
services officer, and Rachel Ward is youth services assistant. Renee Pickering serves the city Juvenile Court as the truancy program specialist and Amber Steele serves the county Juvenile Court. Sherry Laws is the legal secretary. Starr Bewley serves as office manager for both courts and as a legal secretary to the judge. The Circuit Court clerk maintains all records for Sessions and Juvenile courts and issues all warrants. Pajan Cox Wilhoit serves as the child-support referee, appointed by the trial judges for domestic relations/child support cases. MUNICIPAL • Greeneville Municipal Court is in the board room in the Greeneville Light and Power System building, at 110 N. College St. Court is held at 3 p.m. on Mondays. Presiding is Judge Linda Woolsey. • Tusculum City Court is in session on the third Monday of every month at 1:30 p.m. Linda Woolsey, city judge, presides. • Baileyton City Court is in session on the third Monday of each month, at 11 a.m. Linda Woolsey, city judge, presides.
How To Reach Federal Officials The following addresses, Washington, DC 20500 phone numbers and websites Phone numbers: are different ways to reach the Comments: (202) 436-1111 president and vice president, Switchboard: (202) 456-1414 Tennessee’s U.S. Senators and Website: the U.S. House Representative www.whitehouse.gov from the 1st Congressional District. Please note that if the U.S. SEN. LAMAR ALEXANDER (R) mailing address is different Washington Office: from the street address, it is 455 Dirksen Senate Office listed separately. Building Washington, DC 20510 PRESIDENT BARACK H. OBAMA (D) (202) 224-4944 Knoxville Office: VICE PRESIDENT JOSEPH R. BIDEN Howard H. Baker, Jr. (D) U.S. Courthouse 800 Market Street, #112 The White House Knoxville, TN 37902 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. (865) 545-4253
Tri-Cities Office: (202) 224-3344 Washington, DC 20515 Terminal Building, Suite Knoxville Office: (202) 225-6356 101 800 Market Street, Suite Kingsport Office: Tri-Cities Regional Airport 121 205 Revere Street 2525 Highway 75 Knoxville, TN 37902 Kingsport, TN 37600 Blountville, TN 37617 (865) 637-4180 K ingspor t Mailing Tri-Cities Mailing Address: Tri-Cities Office: Address: P.O. Box 1113 Tri-Cities Regional Airport P.O. Box 1728 Blountville, TN 37617 2525 Hwy. 75, Suite 126 Kingsport, TN 37660 (423) 325-6240 Blountville, TN 37617 (423) 247-8161 Website: (423) 323-1252 Morristown Office and http://alexander.senate.gov/ Website: Mailing Address: public/ http://corker.senate.gov/pub1609 College Park Drive, lic/ Suite 4 U.S. SEN. BOB CORKER (R) Morristown, TN 37813 Washington Office: U.S. REP. PHIL ROE (R) (423) 254-1400 185 Dirksen Senate Office Washington Office: Website: Building 419 Cannon House Office www.roe.house.gov Washington, DC 20510 Bldg.