William Lamberth

He was born on December 5, 1977 in Bowling Green, Kentucky.[1] He is a fifth generation resident of Sumner County, Tennessee, and grew up on a farm in Tennessee.[2][4] He attended high school in Portland, Tennessee.[1][2] He graduated from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee in 2001 and received a J.D. from the William & Mary School of Law in Williamsburg, Virginia in 2004, where he was elected President of the Student Bar Association.[1][2]

He was an Assistant District Attorney for Sumner County.[3][4] He now practices law as a private attorney in Gallatin, Tennessee.[1][3]

He was elected as state representative for the forty-fourth district Tennessee in 2012, replacing Democratic representative Mike McDonald.[1][2][3]

He is former president of the Rotary Club of Gallatin, Tennessee and the Sumner County Bar Association, and former treasurer of the Republican Party of Sumner County.[1][2] He is also Chairman of the Portland Community Education Foundation, table host and donor to the Cumberland Crisis Pregnancy Center in Gallatin.[1][2] He also donates to the Middle Tennessee Mission Outreach and regularly goes on Christian missions to Honduras and other regions of the world that are in need of humanitarian relief efforts.[1][2]

In 2022, after accepting over $50,000 in campaign donations from Jack Daniels and other alcohol suppliers, multiple detention facility operators and various pharmaceutical companies, [5] Lamberth embarked on a personal crusade [6] to ban all forms of cannabis in Tennessee containing greater than .3% THC. [7] This effort to ban came in spite of overwhelming public support of cannabis legalization, [8] federal legality of non-delta 9 THC [9] and a clear position from the FDA and USDA [10] that delta 8 THC is not a controlled substance. [11]

He is married to Lauren Schmidt Lamberth, and has two children, Allison and Pierce.[1][2][4] He is a Baptist.[1][2] He lives in Cottontown, Tennessee with his family.[1][3]