Jimmy Lea

General Sessions Judge 

JUDGE JIMMY LEA

A proud native of Wilson County. He graduated from Lebanon High School. Following high school, attended the University of Georgia where he played baseball for two years. Then completed studies and graduated from Middle Tennessee State University with a degree in biology and psychology.

Following undergrad, he worked for the Tennessee Department of Health while also completing a legal education at the Nashville School of Law, graduating with honors in 2002.

He is a member of the Lebanon Breakfast Rotary Club, the Tennessee Sheriffs’ Association, the Lebanon Wilson County Chamber of Commerce, and the 15th Judicial District Bar Association and a 2006 graduate of Leadership Wilson.