Chancellor Jeffrey F. Stewart of Winchester has been chosen as president-elect of the Tennessee Judicial Conference, which includes all of the state’s 178 trial and appellate court judges. He will become president of the organization in June 2006 for a one-year term.
Stewart, of the 12 th Judicial District , including Bledsoe, Franklin, Grundy, Marion, Rhea and Sequatchie counties, will succeed Criminal Court Judge Arthur Bennett of Memphis.
The president-elect has been a member of the judiciary since 1989. He is a past president of the Tennessee Trial Judges Association and is a member of the Tennessee Judicial Conference Executive Committee and a Fellow in the Tennessee Bar Foundation.
He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of the South and his law degree from the Nashville School of Law. He also attended the National Judicial College.
Stewart and his wife Linda Mayberry Stewart are the parents of four children. They are members of First United Methodist Church.