Ward Crutchfield
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Ward Crutchfield, born December 6, 1928 in Chattanooga, is a Tennessee politician and a member of the Tennessee Senate for the 10th district, which encompasses Marion County and part of Hamilton County. He was a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives during the 80th and 82nd General Assemblies. He served as a state senator in the 83rd and 84th General Assemblies, as well as in all General Assemblies from the 94th through the current 104th General Assembly.
Ward Crutchfield is a member of the Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee; Senate Commerce, Labor, and Agriculture; and the Senate Education Committee. He was Chairman of the Senate Labor Committee during the 83rd and 84th General Assemblies. He served as the Democratic leader during the 101st through 103rd General Assemblies, and he is a former Senate Democratic Caucus chairman.
Ward Crutchfield attended the University of Chattanooga and received a J.D. from the University of Tennessee College of Law in Knoxville in 1951. He received an honorable discharge from the U.S. Army. He is a former member of the Metropolitan Government Charter Commission. He currently works as an attorney, having once been an acting attorney for Hamilton County and an attorney for the Hamilton County Board of Education.
At around 8 a.m. on May 26, 2005, Crutchfield was arrested as part of the Operation Tennessee Waltz bribery scandal. He was accused of taking $12,000 from a front company of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in USA vs. Ward Crutchfield and Charles Love.
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