Authored By Staff Report
The City of Chattanooga recently announced that Deputy City Attorney Phil Noblett will soon move into the city attorney position, following a recent vacancy. “Phil is an ideal fit for this role,” Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke said. “He is a skilled litigator and legal strategist with an exceptional understanding of municipal law that goes back nearly 30 years. He is uniquely and eminently qualified to be our next City Attorney.”
The mayor and City Council will confirm Noblett on Aug. 21.
Noblett became deputy city attorney in 2009 and previously served as president of the Chattanooga Bar Association and is a fellow of the Chattanooga Bar Foundation. He served as president of the Tennessee Municipal Attorneys Association in 2016.
Noblett received his J.D. degree from Cumberland School of Law at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama and has been a licensed attorney in Tennessee since 1982.
He was a member of Nelson, McMahan & Noblett from 1990 until 2009 as a municipal and civil litigator on state and federal court matters for the City of Chattanooga and other municipal governments in Tennessee.
The previous City Attorney, Wade Hinton, resigned from his position with the city to join Unum as its vice president of diversity and inclusion.
