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General Sessions Judge - Thomas L. Moore, Jr. |
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Thomas L. Moore, Jr. has been the General Sessions Judge of Weakley County, Tennessee since 1990, currently serving in his second term. Prior to his election to that position he was an attorney in Weakley County with offices in Martin and Dresden, with the firms: Brundige & Maloan; Brundige, Maloan, Gallien & Moore; and Maloan, Gallien, Thomas & Moore, from 1979 till 1990. He received his undergraduate degree at the University of Tennessee, Martin in 1976 and his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Memphis, Cecil C. Humphrey School of Law in December 1978.
He is married to the former Carol Reavis of Dresden. They have two children: a son, Joshua Thomas Moore, who is married to the former Bonnie Brundige, (residing in Martin, TN), and, a daughter, Kate Leeann Moore, currently a student at Union University in Jackson, TN.
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Professionally, Judge Moore is a member of the Weakley County Bar Association, Tennessee Bar Association, American Bar Association, the Tennessee General Sessions Judges' Conference and is a fellow of the Tennessee Bar Foundation. He is a past president of the Tennessee General Sessions Judges Conference and a member of the State Judicial Council. He serves on the State of Tennessee Private Probation Commission. He has served on numerous state committees for the betterment of the State Judiciary, including: the Implementation Committee on Racial and Gender Fairness in Tennessee Courts; the TGSJC committee on the Future of the Courts; the Judicial Council Committees studying Uniform Court Costs and Municipal Courts; and the Judicial Ethics Committee appointed by the State Supreme Court. He has completed several courses in judicial education at the National Judicial College at the University of Nevada.
Judge Moore is a member of the 27th Judicial District Drug Court Team. He is the associate Judge, sharing the judicial role on that team, attending all weekly staffing sessions and presiding over the court in the absence of Circuit Judge William Acree.
Locally Judge Moore serves as: the Chairman of the Weakley Co. Alliance for a Safe and Drug Free Tennessee; as a member of the Weakley County Domestic Violence Advisory Committee; past member and past chairman of the Weakley County Foster Care Review Board; President of the Weakley County Affiliate Habitat for Humanities; member, past President, Director and Paul Harris Fellow in the Dresden Rotary Club; Trustee of the Weakley County Baptist Association; President and member of the Dresden Foundation; member of the Character Education Committee of the Weakley County School Board; member of the Board of Directors of the Sunset Cemetery Association; Secretery and Director of the Dresden Senior Community, Inc; member of the Dresden Volunteer Fire Department; City Judge of the City of Dresden; Chairman of the City of Dresden Planning Commission; member of the Reelfoot Regional Library Board; and sings with the David Johnson Chorus and the Goodtime Singers Gospel Quartet.
Regionally Judge Moore has served for over twelve years on the Board of Trustees of Union University in Jackson, TN. He has served on the Executive Board at that Institution and was a member of the Presidential Search Committee in 1994. Judge Moore has taught as an adjunct professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Tennessee at Martin and is currently a member of the planning committee for the annual, nationally recognized and honored, Civil Rights Conference at that institution.
Judge Moore is also local businessman. He is a stockholder in Thunderbolt Broadcasting, Inc., Gibson County Broadcasting, Inc., and Kentucky Bell, Inc. At one time he was a partner in a local real estate investment company that built and operated the Dresden and Huntingdon Dairy Queens, the Weakley County Lumber Co, Inc. and the Heritage Shopping Center. He and his wife, Carol and her family are partners in one of the oldest family owned and operated businesses in Weakley County, E.T. Reavis & Sons.
Judge Moore resides in Dresden, TN. He is a member of the Dresden First Baptist Church, where he serves as a Deacon, Sunday School Superintendent, Trustee, church pianist, choir member and Sunday School Teacher. He has accompanied the Senior High and College youth at Dresden First Baptist Church on nine summer, week long, mission trips to various locations within the United States as a part of the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention World Changers projects, performing rehab construction on the homes of underprivileged individuals in remote poverty stricken areas and inner city slums. He has joined with both Union University Medical Mission teams and local construction teams to carry on short-term mission projects to Honduras, Central America on six different occasions.
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