From WHJL: News Channel 11

Dr. Casey Nicholson, of Greeneville, has announced he is running for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Tennessee in a bid to unseat Republican Governor Bill Lee. Nicholson decided to run in response to Governor Lee’s mishandling of the Covid-19 pandemic.

A native Tennessean, Nicholson is an ordained Cumberland Presbyterian minister who operates a counseling practice in his hometown of Greeneville. He was ordained in 2005, and served churches in Mississippi and East Tennessee before starting a counseling ministry in 2017. In the past he has served as both the Moderator of the Presbytery of East Tennessee as well as Chair of the Committee on Theology and Social Concerns for that same regional church body. He currently serves as Chair of that group’s Board of Missions, a committee charged with oversight of the Cumberland Presbyterian denomination’s congregations throughout Knoxville and northeast Tennessee. As Chair of that board, Nicholson has been personally responsible for drafting Covid-19 guidance for his denomination’s congregations throughout northeast Tennessee in both 2020 and 2021.

Nicholson has been involved in politics over the years, having been the Democratic nominee for 5th-District State Representative in 2008, as well as Chair of the Greene County Democratic Party from 2017-2019. He also served as district representative for the 1st Congressional District to the Tennessee Democratic County Chairs Association from 2017-2019. He is also a co-founder of Indivisible Greene County, a group of concerned citizens that has worked to bring attention to a variety of social issues and current events in northeast Tennessee.

Nicholson, 43, holds undergraduate degrees from Walters State Community College and East Tennessee State University, as well as graduate degrees from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Memphis Theological Seminary. His doctorate is in pastoral counseling.

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