Perez-Benitoa, Antonio J.

Born and raised in Dresden, Tennessee, Lowe Finney graduated Magna Cum Laude/With High Honors from the University of Tennessee at Martin with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration. He attended the Saint Louis University School of Law in St. Louis, Missouri. While at SLU, Mr. Finney participated in the Student Bar Association, the International Law Society, the Health Law Society, Phi Alpha Delta Legal Fraternity and was the recipient of the Honorable Joseph Eagleton Scholarship. After graduation, Mr. Finney clerked for the Honorable John Everett Williams of the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals.

Mr. Finney is involved in all aspects of general civil litigation and appeals in Tennessee state courts, United States District Court, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He maintains active practices in the areas of social security disability, adoption, business formation, estates and probate, and entertainment law.

In 2006, Mr. Finney was elected to the 105th Tennessee General Assembly to serve the people of the 27th Senate District. He previously served as Secretary/Treasurer of the Senate Democratic Caucus, Vice-Chair of the Senate State and Local Government Committee, Secretary of the Long-Term Care Oversight Committee, and as a member of the Transportation Committee. He served one session as a member of the Senate Environment, Conservation and Tourism Committee and the Senate Government Operations Committee. He also served as Chairman of the Special Joint Committee to Study the Creation of a Department of Aging as well as the Co-Chair of the Special Joint Committee to Study the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.

In 2010, Mr. Finney was re-elected to a second term in the State Senate as a member of the 107th General Assembly and currently serves as Chairman of the Senate Democratic Caucus. He is a member of the Senate Finance, Ways, and Means Committee and the Senate State and Local Government Committee.

Mr. Finney is a member of the Madison County and Tennessee Bar Associations. He previously taught Business Law, Constitutional Law, and Law and the Courts at Lambuth University, Business Law at Lane College in Jackson, and Entertainment Law at Bethel University in McKenzie.

In 2009, Mr. Finney was appointed by the Tennessee Supreme Court to serve on the Advisory Commission on the Rules of Practice and Procedure. Since 2008, he has served on the Appellate Practice Section Executive Council for the Tennessee Bar Association.

Mr. Finney and his wife, Tiffany, reside in Jackson and are members of Jackson First Baptist Church.