Jack Johnson (born July 25, 1968) is an American politician and a Republican Party member of the Tennessee Senate for the 27th district, which is composed of Williamson County.
[1] Jack Johnson was elected to the Tennessee General Assembly Senate in November 2006, after incumbent Jim Bryson had decided to run for governor.
[1] Johnson defended keeping the controversial bust of the Confederate Lt. General and first Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard Nathan Bedford Forrest prominently displayed on the second floor of the Tennessee General Assembly building in Nashville, voting twice on separate occasions as a member of the State Capitol Commission against relocating the NBF to the nearby Tennessee State Museum for permanent display.
He also believes that citizens should be allowed to carry concealed guns, that the state driver's license exam should be given only in English, and that fines should be imposed on employers that knowingly hire illegal immigrants.
[7] Johnson's wife, Deanna Bell Johnson, is a 1991 graduate of the Roman Catholic DePaul University College of Law of Chicago, Illinois and was appointed as 21st Judicial District Circuit Court Judge in November 2014 by Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam to fill the office that was vacated when Judge Tim Easter was appointed to the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals.