Bill Gibbons

Bill Gibbons
2nd Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security
In office
January 2011 – September 2016[1]
Appointed byBill Haslam
Preceded byDavid Mitchell
Succeeded byDavid Purkey
District Attorney General of the 30th Judicial District of Tennessee
In office
1996 – c. 2010
Appointed byDon Sundquist
Personal details
BornArkansas, USA
Political partyIndependent
SpouseJulia Smith Gibbons
Children2
EducationVanderbilt University

Bill Gibbons is the Executive Director at The Public Safety Institute at the University of Memphis.[2] Gibbons was previously Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security until 2016. He was appointed to the post by the Governor of Tennessee, Bill Haslam. He is a former District Attorney General of the 30th Judicial District of Tennessee, which includes Shelby County and the city of Memphis, Tennessee. He was a Republican candidate in the 2010 Tennessee gubernatorial election, but dropped out on March 26, 2010 due to "lack of sufficient campaign funds to go forward."[3][4]

  1. ^ "Haslam Names David Purkey Commissioner of Safety and Homeland Security". www.tn.gov. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |url= (help)
  2. ^ "Public Safety Institute - SUAPP - University of Memphis". Archived from the original on 2017-03-08. Retrieved 2017-03-07.
  3. ^ Gibbons statement Archived April 22, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ "Bill Gibbons drops out of TN governor's race". The Tennessean.