Justin J. Pearson

Candidate for Tennessee Congressional District 9

Justin J. Pearson was elected as a Tennessee state representative in 2023. He graduated from Bowdoin College, and at 15 he petitioned his school board for new textbooks for his Mitchell High School classmates. In 2020 he co-founded Memphis Community Against Pollution, an environmental and climate justice nonprofit, and led a fight against a planned pipeline through southwest Memphis. He leads the Movement for Justice Rooted in Love. In 2023 the House expelled him after a gun-violence protest, and voters then reelected him with 94 percent of the vote.

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