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Mt. Juliet City com-missioners voted July 6 tohire Lebanon’s city attorneyas its municipal judge.At a special city com-mission meeting Mondaynight, Lebanon City Attor-ney Andy Wright was unani-mously approved to serveas Mt. Juliet’s new munici-pal judge. The hire comesquick in the wake of Ste-phen Grauberger’s resigna-tion from the post on June27 via email to city of
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cials.Former Mt. Julietcity judge John Gwin, whocurrently serves as DivisionIII General Sessions Judgefor Wilson, agreed to sit inas an interim judge.District 1 Commis-sioner Ted Floyd nominatedWright, who was the onlynominated candidate.Wright served 11 yearsas a Metro Nashville po-liceman, the attorney said,focusing for eight years onundercover drug enforce-ment. In 2001 he graduatedfrom the Nashville School of Law and began practicingin 2002. Wright worked forone year with the Farrar &Bates law
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rm in Nashville, which serves as counsel forthe Tennessee MunicipalLeague. Wright then workedin the
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rm of Lowery & Low-ery in Lebanon for one yearbefore becoming the City of Lebanon’s full-time staff at-torney
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ve years ago.As a city attorney, Wrightsaid, he has experienceprosecuting in court andhas been involved in thecourt system “for six or sev-en years.”Wright said he is familiar with “the need for a produc-tive and ef
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cient city court.”“I understand the need to work with the police depart-ment,” Wright said Monday.“I know the need for an ef-
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cient, productivecourt docket.”In the May 13,2009, edition of the
Chronicle
, outgoing judge Graubergervoiced his concernsabout the Mt. Julietcity court systemand how it is con-ducted.Grauberger tookof
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ce early this yearbut experiencedsome friction withMt. Juliet Police andcity leaders in May, when results froman evaluation of his
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rst 90 days in of-
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ce raised concernabout his track re-cord in court rul-ings versus thoseof Gwin. Grauberger calleda meeting with commis-sioners in May, reported inthe May 13, 2009, editionof
The Chronicle
, and saidhis main objectives in call-ing the meeting was to dis-cuss who has control of thecourt docket, an analysis of his decisions made from thebench during his
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rst threemonths versus those madeby outgoing Gwin during his
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nal three months on thebench, and who dictated thedecision for the number of court dates to be reduced.Grauberger remarked atthat time that City of
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cialsare currently looking to in-crease the number of policeof
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cers in Mt. Juliet, whichalong with the onset of sum-mer months (and restless,driving teenagers) will onlyincrease the number of dockets. To read that entire articlevisit www.thechronicleofm-tjuliet.com. This story was
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rst report-ed on
The Chronicle
websiteon Monday, July 6.
Lebanon city attorney Andy Wrightwill take seat as new MJ city judge
Andy Wright
Beginning Monday, June 29, 2009, Curd Rd. will be closed fromthe 3-way intersection at Woodridge to the Southern End of the Mt. Juliet High School Campus until August 2, 2009, due towidening of the road. City of Mt. Juliet officials said hopefully the project will be completed before the August 2 date.
Portion of Curd Road closed until Aug. 2
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