Brent Easley

Brent Easley recently served as Gov. Bill Lee's legislative director, managing his entire legislative portfolio and legislative facing staff members for nearly five years. During that time, Easley was the legislative lead on education policy issues for the Governor and was successful in gaining passage of key policies in a number of areas including modernization of transportation policy, sweeping changes in education, criminal justice reforms, COVID-19 response and targeting budget priorities. Prior to joining the Lee administration, Easley was the executive director of the education advocacy groups TennesseeCAN and StudentsFirstTN. His deep knowledge of policy and politics began years earlier working on federal and state level political campaigns and serving as the senior policy analyst for Republicans in the TN House of Representatives. When not on Tennessee's Capitol Hill, Easley can be found teaching as an adjunct professor at his alma mater, Lipscomb University. Easley resides in Nashville with his wife and two children.