Matt Van EppsIncumbent

Candidate for Tennessee Congressional District 7

He was sworn into Congress in December 2025 after winning a special election. A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, he spent ten years on active duty as an Army aviator, with deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. He flew AH-64D Apache and MH-47G Chinook helicopters with the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment (Airborne). He continued serving in the Tennessee Army National Guard, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. In Tennessee state government, he was Deputy Chief Operating Officer in the Governor's Office and Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of General Services. He also holds a Master of Public Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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