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Jonathan Skrmetti
Jonathan Thomas Skrmetti (born January 4, 1977) is an American attorney and public official who has served as the 28th attorney general of Tennessee since 2022. Skrmetti worked as a lawyer in Memphis, Tennessee, both in private practice and as a federal prosecutor in the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee. He later served as Tennessee's chief deputy attorney general and was chief counsel to Governor Bill Lee.
Skrmetti was born in New London, Connecticut, on January 4, 1977. He earned degrees from George Washington University and Hertford College, University of Oxford. He earned a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School and served as the editor-in-chief of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy.
Skrmetti previously clerked for Judge Steven Colloton on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. As an adjunct professor, he taught cyberlaw at the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphrey's School of Law. Before entering private practice, Skrmetti was a federal prosecutor for almost a decade, first with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and then as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Memphis from 2011 to 2014. Skrmetti was also a partner at Butler Snow LLP in Memphis.
He served as chief counsel to Governor Bill Lee from December 2021 to August 2022.
Jonathan Skrmetti served as chief deputy attorney general under Herbert Slatery from December 2018 through December 2021.
Skrmetti was sworn in to serve an eight-year term as attorney general of Tennessee on September 1, 2022.
On May 31, 2023, Skrmetti filed suit against 21 named and 10 unnamed manufacturers of products using PFAS. The suit focuses on the manufacture and sale of AFFF (aqueous film-forming foam) throughout the state rather than on the various consumer products which contain PFAS. Skrmetti contends that the manufacturers not only knew about the risk PFAS pose to both organisms and the environment, but that they also concealed the level of harm the chemicals could cause in order to raise their profits. The suit further claims that some of the named companies attempted to protect themselves from liability through fraud.
Attorney General Herbert Slatery's office had attempted to specifically investigate Instagram in 2021 and TikTok in 2022. Skrmetti, as Chief Deputy Attorney General, argued against the then-planned Instagram for kids only, stating that the platform would be a means of having children become accustomed to social media when they are "psychologically vulnerable."
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Jonathan Skrmetti
Jonathan Thomas Skrmetti (born January 4, 1977) is an American attorney and public official who has served as the 28th attorney general of Tennessee since 2022. Skrmetti worked as a lawyer in Memphis, Tennessee, both in private practice and as a federal prosecutor in the office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee. He later served as Tennessee's chief deputy attorney general and was chief counsel to Governor Bill Lee.
Skrmetti was born in New London, Connecticut, on January 4, 1977. He earned degrees from George Washington University and Hertford College, University of Oxford. He earned a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School and served as the editor-in-chief of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy.
Skrmetti previously clerked for Judge Steven Colloton on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. As an adjunct professor, he taught cyberlaw at the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphrey's School of Law. Before entering private practice, Skrmetti was a federal prosecutor for almost a decade, first with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, and then as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Memphis from 2011 to 2014. Skrmetti was also a partner at Butler Snow LLP in Memphis.
He served as chief counsel to Governor Bill Lee from December 2021 to August 2022.
Jonathan Skrmetti served as chief deputy attorney general under Herbert Slatery from December 2018 through December 2021.
Skrmetti was sworn in to serve an eight-year term as attorney general of Tennessee on September 1, 2022.
On May 31, 2023, Skrmetti filed suit against 21 named and 10 unnamed manufacturers of products using PFAS. The suit focuses on the manufacture and sale of AFFF (aqueous film-forming foam) throughout the state rather than on the various consumer products which contain PFAS. Skrmetti contends that the manufacturers not only knew about the risk PFAS pose to both organisms and the environment, but that they also concealed the level of harm the chemicals could cause in order to raise their profits. The suit further claims that some of the named companies attempted to protect themselves from liability through fraud.
Attorney General Herbert Slatery's office had attempted to specifically investigate Instagram in 2021 and TikTok in 2022. Skrmetti, as Chief Deputy Attorney General, argued against the then-planned Instagram for kids only, stating that the platform would be a means of having children become accustomed to social media when they are "psychologically vulnerable."
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