---
type: Person
title: "Richard Briggs"
description: "TN Senate District 7 — TN State Senate District 7"
role: "TN Senate District 7"
party: "R"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "TN"
district: "TN State Senate District 7"
represents: "us/states/tn/districts/senate/7"
tenure:
  start: "2014-11-04"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "51424547-c31a-42fb-b881-c8c542e8747b"
  office: "ee082a87-435d-4c98-9d3c-74e9463828d1"
  tenure: "0e5ddcbe-e9dc-4419-a584-79eb5514b0d7"
  jurisdiction: "84514bb3-b431-4f99-8ccf-000aa6cdb7bd"
sources:
  - field: tenure
    source: "OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20"
  - field: jurisdiction
    source: "SLDU (Census 2025)"
confidence: official
tags: [officeholder, state, legislative, tn]
timestamp: "2026-07-04"
---

# Richard Briggs

Current TN Senate District 7 (TN State Senate District 7).

Represents [TN State Senate District 7](/us/states/tn/districts/senate/7.md).

## Sources

- tenure: OpenStates YAML via GitHub 2026-06-20
- jurisdiction: SLDU (Census 2025)

Generated from the Atlas officeholders v3 export (2026-07-04).