DHS ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGE – 74716

Executive Service

DHS ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGEDepartment of Human ServicesFA Hearings AttorneysNashville, TN – StatewideSalary: $103,440 – $134,244Closing Date: 02/09/2026

This is a hybrid position

For more information, visit the link below:
https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/human-services/documents/HRC0017841_DHS_Admin_Judge_Davidson_2926.pdf
Who we are and what we do:

DHS MISSION: Strengthen Tennessee by Strengthening Tennesseans DHS VISION: To revolutionize the customer experience by growing capacity to reduce dependency. DHS VALUES: High Performance Collaboration Continuous Improvement A Shared Vision Customer-Centered Solutions

Job Overview:

The DHS Administrative Judge Unit is responsible for presiding over administrative hearings for appeals related to adverse administrative action taken by the Department on behalf of State and Federal programs. The DHS Administrative Judge is responsible for conducting pre-hearing conferences, determining admissibility of evidence, case management, maintaining the order of proceedings, issuing legally sufficient findings of fact and conclusions of law, and issuing responses to petitions. As part of the DHS Administrative Judge series, employees in this classification report to a DHS Sr Administrative Judge. This class differs from that of a DHS Sr Administrative Judge in that an incumbent of the latter performs work of greater scope and complexity and supervises employees in this classification.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conducts telephonic, virtual, or in-person hearings impartially and ensures due process is administered on all cases, while safeguarding the legal rights of all involved parties.
• Displays judicial temperament and maintains hearing decorum while ensuring all parties understand and follow the procedures of the hearing.
• Determines the issue(s) to be presented for each hearing.
• Rules on objections, motions, and admissibility of evidence. Issues subpoenas and administers oaths in preparation for formal hearings.
• May conduct pre-hearing conferences to resolve issues prior to the hearing. Records and retains all hearings per applicable regulations and rules.
• Ensures evidence presented during hearings is maintained electronically.
• Generates a timely and well-written initial order including legally sufficient findings of fact, conclusions of law, and remedy prescribed.
• Processes and issues responses to petitions for reconsideration of the initial order within the specified time frame.
• Reviews requests for continuance to ensure good cause is established, and issues orders of continuance.
• Reviews withdraw requests and generates agreed orders of withdraw.
• Communicates regularly with administrative clerk and avoids ex parte communication.
• Conducts legal research of federal and state laws, policies, regulations, and case law

Minimum Qualifications:

Preferred education & Experience:

• Licensed to practice law and in good standing in Tennessee, with no prior disciplinary action;
• 5 years minimum experience as a practicing attorney.
• Proficiency of the Tennessee Uniform Administrative Procedures Act and
• familiarity with programs administered by the Department of Human Services preferred

Pursuant to the State of Tennessee’s Workplace Discrimination and Harassment policy, the State is firmly committed to the principle of fair and equal employment opportunities for its citizens and strives to protect the rights and opportunities of all people to seek, obtain, and hold employment without being subjected to illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It is the State’s policy to provide an environment free of discrimination and harassment of an individual because of that person’s race, color, national origin, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, disability, veteran’s status or any other category protected by state and/or federal civil rights laws.