William Lamberth | |
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Majority Leader of the Tennessee House of Representatives | |
Assumed office January 8, 2019 | |
Preceded by | Glen Casada |
Member of the TennesseeHouseofRepresentatives from the 44th district | |
Assumed office January 8,2013 | |
Preceded by | Mike McDonald |
Personal details | |
Born | William Gary Lamberth December 5,1977 Bowling Green,Kentucky,U.S. |
Political party | Republican |
Spouse | Lauren Lamberth |
Children | 2 |
Education | University of Tennessee (BA) College of William and Mary (JD) |
William Gary Lamberth (born December 5,1977) is an American politician. [1] [2] [3] [4] He serves as a Republican member of the Tennessee House of Representatives for the forty-fourth district,encompassing parts of Sumner County,Tennessee. [1] [2] [4]
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] [ self-published source ] [4] He attended Portland High School. [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] [ self-published source ]
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 representative 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] [ self-published source ] He is also Chairman of the Portland Community Education Foundation,table host and donor to the Cumberland Crisis Pregnancy Center in Gallatin. [1] [2] [ self-published source ] 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] [ self-published source ]
In 2023,Lamberth supported a resolution to expel three Democratic lawmakers from the legislature for violating decorum rules. The expulsion was widely characterized as unprecedented. [5]
In 2022,after accepting over $50,000 in campaign donations from Jack Daniel's and other alcohol suppliers,multiple detention facility operators and various pharmaceutical companies, [6] Lamberth embarked on a personal crusade [7] to ban all forms of cannabis in Tennessee containing greater than .3% THC. [8] This effort to ban came in spite of overwhelming public support of cannabis legalization, [9] federal legality of non-delta 9 THC [10] and a clear position from the FDA and USDA [10] that delta 8 THC is not a controlled substance. [11]
Lamberth has been criticized by the LGBT community for supporting bills to criminalize doctors performing gender reassignment surgery on minors, [12] requiring transgender people to use public restrooms corresponding to their biological sex, [13] and requiring transgender athletes in high school to compete in collegiate sports that correspond to their biological sex. [14]
He is married to Lauren Schmidt Lamberth,and has two children.[ self-published source ] [4] He is a Baptist. [1] [2] [ self-published source ] He lives in Cottontown,Tennessee,with his family. [1] [3]
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