In February of 2021, a full year and a half before the August election, the Lenoir City mayor/council voted to eliminate the requirement for a candidate for city judge to be a resident of the city. That vote raised questions at the time as to why they would want to remove the residence requirement.

On April 1, 2022,  mayor Tony Aikens had a letter sent to all the candidates who had picked up petitions to run for the judge's position, incumbent Judge Robin McNabb, attorney Amanda Smith and city attorney Greg Harrison.  The letter stated that the judge's pay would be reduced from $75,000.00 down to $7,200.00. The letter was sent one week before the deadline to qualify to run for the judge position in hopes that some candidates would drop out of the election. This did not happen.

The election took place on August 4th, Harrison won the race by 37 votes with 350 votes, McNabb got 313 votes and Smith getting 296 votes.

On August 22nd, the mayor/council raised the judge's pay from $7,200.00 back up to $75,000.00 for election winner, Greg Harrison.

On August 23, Judge Robin McNabb filed a constitutional lawsuit challenging Harrison's right to hold the office of city court judge since he doesn't live in the city as required by the state constitution.

On August 26, Judge McNabb had a hearing before Judge Mike Pemberton requesting a temporary restraining order to prevent Harrison from taking office. The request was denied.

Robin McNabb constitutional lawsuit challenging Harrison's right to hold the office of city court judge will be held on September 12th.

The rest of the timeline is yet to be written.