[3] In 2023, Baum was the only Republican to vote against three resolutions to expel three Democratic lawmakers from the legislature for violating decorum rules.
[3] Baum attended Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina where he earned his B.A.
Baum then attended the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, where he received his Ph.D. in economics in 1999.
He was a board member at the American Heart Association of Rutherford County for 5 years from 2012–2017.
Baum published "Calculating Economic Losses from Wrongful Incarceration"[12] in the Tennessee Bar Journal in July 2016.