Brian Kelsey (born December 22, 1977) is an American politician and former member of the Tennessee State Senate.
A member of the Republican party, he was elected to represent District 31, which encompassed the following parts of Shelby County: Cordova, East Memphis, and Germantown.
[8] He also sponsored the Governor's comprehensive tort reform act in 2011,[9] and passed a law to prohibit Obamacare Medicaid expansion[10] in Tennessee in 2014.
In 2019, his conference committee report instituting an Education Savings Account program was signed into law[11] by Governor Bill Lee.
In 2021, Kelsey was one of four Republican senators who voted against removing from the Tennessee constitution the article which allows involuntary servitude as punishment for people convicted of a crime.
[13] On Monday, October 25, 2021, the U.S. Department of Justice announced a five-count indictment by a federal grand jury against Kelsey in connection with his failed 2016 congressional campaign.