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passion

for

justice

Wimberly brings 40 years of experience and compassion

to the complexities dealt with in the courtroom, a setting

where you can never have too much experience.

JUDGE HAROLD WIMBERLY
the camera to capture all the avail- emergency room. When it happens,
began his service to Knox County able information and omit nothing. you want experienced professionals

almost 40 years ago. Now, nearly Sometimes understanding comes who calmly handle crises, explain

four decades and several successful not from seeing separate dots but what you need to understand, and
elections later, Judge Wimberly has seeing what connects them and fills know what they are doing. When it

presided over countless legal deci- in the gaps between.
comes to the courtroom, you want a
sions—from multi-million-dollar The law is the law. Those appear- predictability and continuity that re-

lawsuits to more than 600 adoption ing before Judge Wimberly don’t flects the kind of community where
you live—where that community is
cases that found more than 1,000 need a judge concerned with flash
children adoptive homes. Unsurpris- or flamboyance presiding, but a and where it wants to go.

ingly to those who know the man, calm, respected presence—one who A graduate of Knoxville’s West
the latter gives him the most satis- inspires confidence and brings to High School and both the University

faction. Watch one of the campaign the bench decades of experience
of Tennessee and its College of Law,
ads supporting the judge, and that’s as he supervises all proceedings. A Judge Wimberly has spent his entire

what you’ll see and hear: not the courtroom is inherently dramatic, life in the Knoxville community. With

judge’s face or the judge’s voice, but a and the judge must be the cool hand his wife, Sarah, he has raised a family
happily adopted baby being em- who keeps all the drama in check. here, and his son is a practicing

braced by a contented grandfather.
Although this work happens in the attorney in Knoxville, as well. Last
A life-long amateur photogra- most civilized and orderly of physical year, he received the Bill Williams

pher who still uses old-school film environments and frequently away Service Award for outstanding

rather than digital cameras, Judge from the limelight and cameras, the achievement in the area of adoption
Wimberly is much more comfort- situation is always tense and at any services for his commitment,

able behind the camera than in moment something can go critically dedication, and service assisting the
front of it. He prefers film because, wrong. People’s lives are affected.
Department of Child Services in

as befits a person who must make No one wants to appear in court, finding adoptive families for children
evidence-based decisions, he wants
just as no one wants to go to the
in full guardianship of the state.

PAID FOR BY KNOXVILLE FOR FAIRNESS AND JUSTICE, RHEA RICHARDSON, TREASURER.
NOT AUTHORIZED BY ANY CANDIDATE OR CANDIDATE’S COMMITTEE.