Faculty Profile: Robert Hibbett

Robert N. Hibbett was raised and still lives in Mount Juliet Tennessee. He graduated from the University of Tennessee at Martin with a B.S. in Business Administration and received his J.D. from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1985. He was in private practice in Knoxville Tennessee for three years. In 1989, he was appointed Assistant District Attorney General for the Fifteenth Judicial District of Tennessee. In 2009, he was named Deputy District Attorney General (Criminal Division). He was appointed Commissioner (Judge) of Claims for the Middle Grand Division by Governor Haslam effective July 1, 2011. Hibbett is a former president of the Fifteenth Judicial District Bar Association and a former member of the Board of Governors for the Tennessee Bar Association. He retired from the Army National Guard as a Colonel after 30 years of commissioned service. He is a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom where he commanded the 130th Rear Area Operations Center and was Deputy Base Commander for Camp Bucca, Iraq. He and his wife Kelly have two children, Carver and Caroline.