Chaz Molder

Chaz Molder is a Columbia native who was first elected mayor of Columbia in 2018, unseating a two-term incumbent, and was re-elected in 2022. He won his first term with 65 percent of the city's vote and was the youngest mayor in Tennessee at the time, according to the Tennessee Democratic Party. In July 2025, he announced that he would not seek a third term. He has practiced as an attorney with Mounger & Molder, PLLC, since 2015. He graduated from the University of Tennessee and the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law at the University of Memphis.

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