Forgety Announces Candidacy for Re-election as Chancellor April 1, 2014

Chancellor Telford Forgety

Chancellor Telford Forgety

Chancellor Telford Forgety of Dandridge has announced that he will be a candidate in the Republican Primary on May 6, 2014, for re-election as Chancellor of the Fourth and Fifth Judicial Districts.  These districts are composed of Blount, Cocke, Grainger, Jefferson and Sevier Counties.

In making his announcement, Forgety said: “It has been the greatest honor and privilege of my life to serve as Chancellor for the last sixteen years. If  re-elected, I will continue to do my utmost to treat all parties with courtesy and respect and to render my decisions based strictly upon the law and evidence, and without regard to my personal beliefs”.

Forgety and his family are natives of this Judicial District. He is married to Vickie French Forgety, a native of JeffersonCounty, who serves as principal of The New Market Elementary School. The Forgetys are parents of two sons, Trey, 33, and Shea, 30.

Forgety graduated from Carson-Newman College with high honors, and from the Memphis State University Law School, where he ranked sixth in a class of 147.

Immediately after law school, he served as a law clerk for the Tennessee Court of Appeals, the second highest court in Tennessee. In 1976, he began the private practice of law in Dandridge. He practiced there for twenty-one years, and served as County Attorney for Jefferson County for 19 years.  During that time, he also had occasion to serve as an attorney for Sevier County, Cocke County, The Cocke County School Board and The City of New Market. Forgety served two terms as President of the Tennessee Trial Judges Association and has also served as Secretary, Treasurer and a member of the Executive Committee of the Tennessee Judicial Conference.

Forgety Says, “I thank the voters deeply for the outpouring of support and friendship they have shown me over the past sixteen years.  I ask for their vote and support again on May 6th”.

Chancellor Telford Forgety