Hon. Don A. Layton

Don A. Layton is a judge serving the Anderson County General Sessions Court in Tennessee, based in Clinton. He has been in this judicial position since his election in 1998, when he was elected without opposition, and was re-elected in 2014 after defeating Ryan M. Spitzer in the general election. Prior to his judgeship, Layton practiced privately as a lawyer from 1973 to 1991, served as clerk and master for Anderson County from 1991 to 1998, and worked as a school teacher at Oak Ridge School in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He earned a B.S. from Austin Peay University in 1969 and a J.D. from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 1972.