The Davidson County Veterans Treatment Court Foundation led the effort to gain bipartisan approval of the Veterans Criminal Justice Compensation Act, a first-in-the-nation initiative to provide sustainable funding for existing veterans courts and funding to establish new treatment courts across Tennessee. Davidson County General Sessions Judge Melissa Blackburn worked with Murfreesboro State Representative Dawn White and state Sen. Mark Green, R-Clarksville to pass legislation this year.
For more on the initiative:
Veterans courts expand thanks to unique funding (Tennesean)
Rep. Dawn White Gets First Veterans Treatment Court (WGNS Radio)
