The Hon. Boyd M. Patterson is a judge for the 11th Judicial District Criminal Court of Tennessee. He was elected to the bench in 2022.
The 11th Judicial District encompasses Hamilton County. Over the course of his judicial career, Patterson has played an instrumental role in the creation of the Hamilton County Mental Health Court and the Hamilton County Juvenile Recovery Court.
Prior to his election, Patterson was an assistant public defender for the Hamilton County Public Defender’s Office, a position to which he was named in 2017.
Patterson earned a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and a master’s degree in psychology from the University of West Georgia (1996). He spent the next two years counseling at-risk dual-diagnosis teenagers at Inner Harbour Hospital before completing a J.D. at Duquesne University, Thomas R. Kline School of Law, in 2000.
After graduating from law school, Patterson began his legal career as a litigation associate at Campbell & Campbell in Chattanooga. He worked in that capacity until 2002, at which time he joined the Special Prosecutions Division of the Hamilton County District Attorney’s Office. During his tenure there, he founded Litigator Technology, which designed the JuryStar jury selection application, a web jury consulting online trial support service, and the Legal App Incubator.
Raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Patterson attended Hixson High School.
He is registered as a Republican.