William G. Lamberth

William G. Lamberth (born 1977) is an American politician.[1][2][3][4] He serves as the Republican member of the Tennessee House of Representatives for the forty-fourth district, encompassing parts of Sumner County, Tennessee.[1][2][4]

Biography

Early life

He was born on December 5, 1977 in Bowling Green, Kentucky.[1] He is a fifth generation resident of Sumner County, Tennessee, and grew up on a farm in Tennessee.[2][4] He attended high school in Portland, Tennessee.[1][2] He graduated from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee in 2001 and received a J.D. from the William & Mary School of Law in Williamsburg, Virginia in 2004, where he was elected President of the Student Bar Association.[1][2]

Career

He was an Assistant District Attorney for Sumner County.[3][4] He now practices law as a private attorney in [(Gallatin, Tennessee)].[1][3]

He was elected as state representative for the forty-fourth district Tennessee in 2012, replacing Democratic congressman Mike McDonald.[1][2][3]

He is former president of the Rotary Club of Gallatin, Tennessee and the Sumner County Bar Association, and former treasurer of the Republican Party of Sumner County.[1][2] He is also Chairman of the Portland Community Education Foundation, table host and donor to the Cumberland Crisis Pregnancy Center in Gallatin.[1][2] He also donates to the Middle Tennessee Mission Outreach and regularly goes on Christian missions to Honduras and other regions of the world that are in need of humanitarian relief efforts.[1][2]

Personal life

He is married to Lauren Schmidt Lamberth, and has two children, Allison and Pierce.[1][2][4] He is a Baptist.[1][2] He lives in Cottontown, Tennessee with his family.[1][3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Tennessee General Assembly
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Campaign website
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 William Lamberth's victory restores TN District 44 seat to GOP, The Tennessean, November 06, 2012
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Lamberth '04 Elected to Tennessee State House, William & Mary Law School, November 07, 2012
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