Jim Summerville

Jim Summerville
Member of the Tennessee Senate from the 25th district
In office January 2011 – January 13, 2015
Preceded by	Doug Jackson
Succeeded by	Kerry Roberts
Personal details
Born	(1947-10-27) October 27, 1947 (age 77) Dickson, Tennessee, U.S.
Political party	Independent (formerly Republican)
Residence(s)	Dickson, Tennessee
Profession	College Instructor

James M. Summerville (born October 27, 1947) was a member of the Tennessee Senate from the 25th district, encompassing: Cheatham County, Dickson County, Hickman County, Humphreys County, and Robertson County; and Dickson County, Giles County, Hickman County, Humphreys County, Lawrence County, and Lewis County before the 2012 redistricting.^[1] A former Republican he later declared himself an Independent.

Biography

Jim Summerville was born on October 27, 1947, in Dickson, Tennessee. He received a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Tennessee in 1969, an M.A. in English Literature from the University of Iowa in 1972, and an M.A. in American History from Vanderbilt University in 1983. He teaches as an adjunct instructor in the Department of Languages and Literature at Austin Peay State University.^[2]

Elected as a Republican, he resigned his membership in the Republican Caucus after losing in a primary in August 2014. In a letter he sent to the Republican Caucus Chairman, Summerville said he would be serving as an independent member of the Senate for the remainder of his term.^[3]

He is a member of the National Association of Scholars and the Tennessee Eagle Forum. He attends a Presbyterian church in Dickson.

He is the founder of the Theodore Association Police Award for Nashville and Middle Tennessee.

He supported Rick Perry for Republican primary of the presidential election of 2012.^[4]

He was the lead volunteer for the restoration of the Battle of Nashville Monument.^[5]

Arrests

In September 2014, Summerville was arrested for public intoxication. The next month, he was arrested for stalking and assault.^[6][7][8]

Bibliography

• Educating Black Doctors: A History of Meharry Medical College (Alabama, 1983)
• The Carmack-Cooper Shooting: Tennessee Politics Turns Violent (McFarland, 1994)
• Southern Epic: Nashville Through 200 Years (Hallmark, 1996)
• With Kennedy and Other Stories (Xlibris, 1998)^{[self-published source?]}
• Nashville Medicine: A History (Association Publishing, 1999)

Contributing writer

• American National Biography (Oxford, 1999)
• Encyclopedia of Local History (Altamira, 2000)
• Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age (M.E. Sharpe, 2003)

References

1. "Jim Summerville".
2. Cara Kumari, 'Who Is State Sen.-Elect Jim Summerville? Austin Peay Professor Beats Longtime Sen. Doug Jackson', WSMV-TV, November 12, 2010 [1]
3. "State Sen. Jim Summerville Charged with Stalking, Assault - NewsChannel5.com". Archived from the original on 2014-10-20. Retrieved 2014-10-19.
4. J.R. Lind, 'More Volunteers for Perry', on NashvillePost.com, November 7, 2011 [2] Archived 2013-01-02 at the Wayback Machine
5. "Senators - TN General Assembly".
6. "Tennessee state Sen. Jim Summerville arrested for stalking, assault one month after public intoxication charge". New York Daily News.
7. "Jim Summerville faces stalking, assault charges". www.tennessean.com. Associated Press. October 19, 2014.
8. https://www.timesfreepress.com | October 20th, 2014 | Why Sen. Jim Summerville was arrested three times in one month | Associated Press | [3]