NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- State Attorney General Herbert Slatery has decided against a bid to fill a vacancy on Tennessee's Supreme Court.
Slatery has been a longtime friend and adviser to Governor Bill Haslam on legal and spiritual matters and would have been considered a heavy favorite for the Republican governor's appointment had he chosen to apply.
But Slatery in a statement Tuesday noted that he was less than a year into his eight-year term as attorney general and that to "take another position in a few months would be to leave a job unfinished."
The application period to succeed retired Justice Gary Wade opened has been set to run through October 12.
Slatery served as Haslam's chief legal counsel until the Supreme Court last year appointed him as attorney general.
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