Jerome Cochran

Jerome Cochran, born in Saigon on November 17, 1971, is a Tennessee politician. [ [http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/house/members/h4.htm Jerome Cochran's profile at the Tennessee General Assembly website] ] [ [http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:GwCPsaUkBvQJ:archives.starhq.com/html/localnews/0802/080202Cochran.html+%22Northeast+Tennessee+Republican+Assembly%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2 " Cochran -- Ready for Nashville"] ] He was elected as a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives to the 103rd and 104th General Assembly for the 4th District, which encompasses the entirety of Carter County. He was formerly a member of the Children and Family Committee, the Judiciary Committee, the Domestic Relations Committee, the Constitutional Protections Subcommittee, and the Civil Practice & Procedure Subcommittee.

Jerome Cochran received a B.A at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville and later earned a J.D. after attending the Regent University School of Law that was started up by 700 Club founder Pat Robertson.

Cochran was admitted to the Tennessee Bar Association and works in Elizabethton as an attorney with the law offices of David Crockett Attorney-At-Law.

In the 2004 Carter County Republican Primary, he ran against John B. Holsclaw, Sr., a former tax assessor for Carter County, and was re-elected with 3,942 votes over Holsclaw's 2,089. He later ran unopposed in the subsequent 2004 general election.

Among the 2006 legislation sponsored by Cochran in the Tennessee General Assembly was HB2921 authorizing (upon passage) "...the display, in county and municipal public buildings..., of replicas of historical documents and writings" including the Ten Commandments religious displays found contrary to the 2005 U.S. Supreme Court affirmation of McCreary County v. American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky. [ [http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/03-1693.ZS.html "McCreary County V. American Civil Liberties Union of KY". (03-1693) 354 F.3d 438, affirmed (Syllabus)] ]

Cochran introduced HB2921 in the Tennessee House Constitutional Protections subcommittee [ [http://www.timesnews.net/article.dna?_StoryID=3609014 Kingsport Times-News article on Rep. Hill sponsoring Ten Commandments legislation] ] --- of which he was a standing member --- and his HB2921 legislation died peacefully within subcommittee. [ [http://www.timesnews.net/article.dna?_StoryID=3619364 Kingsport Times-News article on the above bill dying in the House subcommittee] ]

Cochran was defeated by challenger Kent Williams of Elizabethton during the August 2006 Republican Primary in Carter County. ref> [http://activepaper.olivesoftware.com/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:LowLevelEntityToPrint_JOHNSONCITY&Type=text/html&Locale=english-skin-custom&Path=SJC/2006/08/05&ID=Ar00104&PageLabel=1A Victor in 4th vows action on stalled projects] ]

References

* [http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/house/members/h4.htm Jerome Cochran's profile at the Tennessee General Assembly website]
* [http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:GwCPsaUkBvQJ:archives.starhq.com/html/localnews/0802/080202Cochran.html+%22Northeast+Tennessee+Republican+Assembly%22&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=2 "Cochran -- Ready for Nashville" Elizabethton Star. Kathy Helms-Hughes. July 5, 2005.]
* [http://www.tncourts.gov/OPINIONS/tcca/PDF/043/McCraryK.pdf Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals case of State of Tennessee v. Raymond K. McCrary referencing Cochran working with David Crockett]
* [http://www.state.tn.us/sos/election/results/2004-8/repthpct.pdf 2004 Republican primary results]
* [http://www.state.tn.us/sos/election/results/2004-11/tnhouseprec.pdf 2004 Tennessee House election results]
* [http://archives.starhq.com/html/localnews/0604/061804August.html An "Elizabethton Star" article on the 2004 elections]
* [http://activepaper.olivesoftware.com/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:LowLevelEntityToPrint_JOHNSONCITY&Type=text/html&Locale=english-skin-custom&Path=SJC/2006/08/05&ID=Ar00104&PageLabel=1A Victor in 4th vows action on stalled projects]