Kristi Davis

Dogs. Legal stuff. Sports. More dogs. GB🍊 One good cinnamon roll away from a great day

[Kristi Davis @TNJudgeDavis]

Lord, this is true

[Chance McClain @TexasChance]

There was about a two year period around 1986 where Sun Tea took over the suburbs.

[Zen and the Art of Persuasive Writing @Zenpersuasion]

I’m an appellate court judge with 29 years in the law. I’ve read more briefs than I can count.

Strong arguments are crucial.
But they’re not enough.

If you overtax the judge’s brain, you’re less persuasive.

Here are three tips to write for the judge’s brain instead of against it. Thread. 🧵

[Kristi Davis @TNJudgeDavis]

First all-female panel of the Tennessee Court of Appeals! @TNCourts

[Kristi Davis @TNJudgeDavis]

Breaking my Lenten fast from social media to say Rest in Peace, @wesruckerTBA.
Truly, one of my favorite sports follows on X. I didn’t know him personally, but this video tells you all you need to know about who he was. Prayers for his family.

[Wes Rucker @wesruckerTBA]

I'm about to go celebrate my son's fourth birthday, and I thank God every day – but especially today – for the people @EastTNChildrens who made days like this possible.

Happy Holidays to the heroes who put on capes every day they walk into that building. Y'all saved our world.

[Ben Sasse @BenSasse]

Friends-

This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die.

Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too — we all do.

I’m blessed with amazing siblings and half-a-dozen buddies that are genuinely brothers. As one of them put it, “Sure, you’re on the clock, but we’re all on the clock.” Death is a wicked thief, and the bastard pursues us all.

Still, I’ve got less time than I’d prefer. This is hard for someone wired to work and build, but harder still as a husband and a dad. I can’t begin to describe how great my people are. During the past year, as we’d temporarily stepped back from public life and built new family rhythms, Melissa and I have grown even closer — and that on top of three decades of the best friend a man could ever have. Seven months ago, Corrie was commissioned into the Air Force and she’s off at instrument and multi-engine rounds of flight school. Last week, Alex kicked butt graduating from college a semester early even while teaching gen chem, organic, and physics (she’s a freak). This summer, 14-year-old Breck started learning to drive. (Okay, we’ve been driving off-book for six years — but now we’ve got paper to make it street-legal.) I couldn’t be more grateful to constantly get to bear-hug this motley crew of sinners and saints.

There’s not a good time to tell your peeps you’re now marching to the beat of a faster drummer — but the season of advent isn’t the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what’s to come.

Not an abstract hope in fanciful human goodness; not hope in vague hallmark-sappy spirituality; not a bootstrapped hope in our own strength (what foolishness is the evaporating-muscle I once prided myself in). Nope — often we lazily say “hope” when what we mean is “optimism.” To be clear, optimism is great, and it’s absolutely necessary, but it’s insufficient. It’s not the kinda thing that holds up when you tell your daughters you’re not going to walk them down the aisle. Nor telling your mom and pops they’re gonna bury their son.

A well-lived life demands more reality — stiffer stuff. That’s why, during advent, even while still walking in darkness, we shout our hope — often properly with a gravelly voice soldiering through tears.

Such is the calling of the pilgrim. Those who know ourselves to need a Physician should dang well look forward to enduring beauty and eventual fulfillment. That is, we hope in a real Deliverer — a rescuing God, born at a real time, in a real place. But the eternal city — with foundations and without cancer — is not yet.

Remembering Isaiah’s prophecies of what’s to come doesn’t dull the pain of current sufferings. But it does put it in eternity’s perspective:
“When we've been there 10,000 years…We've no less days to sing God's praise.”

I’ll have more to say. I’m not going down without a fight. One sub-part of God’s grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren’t the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived. We’re zealously embracing a lot of gallows humor in our house, and I’ve pledged to do my part to run through the irreverent tape.

But for now, as our family faces the reality of treatments, but more importantly as we celebrate Christmas, we wish you peace: “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned….For to us a son is given” (Isaiah 9).

With great gratitude, and with gravelly-but-hopeful voices,
Ben — and the Sasses

[Kansas City Chiefs @Chiefs]

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[Kristi Davis @TNJudgeDavis]

The Tennessee Appellate Courts in the Eastern District collected stuffed animals to donate to Judge Tim Irwin at Knox Co. Juvenile Court. We hope they bring smiles to the children who receive them! @TNCourts

[Kansas City Chiefs @Chiefs]

Who wants a signed @tkelce jersey⁉️

Retweet this post for your chance to win.

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[Kristi Davis @TNJudgeDavis]

@GregIsaacsLaw But did you serve beans and rice? 😂

[College Football Zone @CollegeFBonX]

LSU trying to justify firing Brian Kelly “for cause” so they don’t have to pay his buyout

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

Jesus defeated death so you can live.

[Vol Report @AllVolReport]

Joey Aguilar’s mother watching her son run through the T for the first time is the best thing you’ll see all day 🧡

[Dailey Joy @daileyjoyf]

I just ordered a sweet tea in Mizzou and was informed they don’t have sweet tea.

NOT THE SEC.

[Jeffrey Usman @Prawfish]

1 yr term law clerk position (starting fall 2026), if you are graduating law school in the spring of 2026 & interested in being considered for a TN Ct of Appeals clerkship in Nashville, TN -- please send your application to my career clerk [email protected] by Aug 15th - resume, references, writing sample, & transcript

[Kristi Davis @TNJudgeDavis]

@Meika_Mashack Congratulations!!

[Kristi Davis @TNJudgeDavis]

Never in doubt! GB🍊

[Vince Langman @LangmanVince]

Those commercials were hilarious 😂

[Kristi Davis @TNJudgeDavis]

Thanks to Gov. Peay, I have a job!

[Tennessee Courts @TNCourts]

April 15, 2025, marked the centennial of Governor Austin Peay’s signing of the act creating the Court of Appeals. 
https://t.co/wRDlf9psuM

[Kristi Davis @TNJudgeDavis]

Twinning in chambers today! @TNCourts