---
type: Person
title: "Steve Southerland"
description: "TN Senate District 9 — TN State Senate District 9"
role: "TN Senate District 9"
party: "R"
level: "state"
branch: "legislative"
state: "TN"
district: "TN State Senate District 9"
represents: "us/states/tn/districts/senate/9"
tenure:
  start: "2022-11-08"
  current: true
election:
  term_length: 2
  term_limit: "varies"
ids:
  person: "743ba97f-2dd5-42f2-a143-961eb4a1853a"
  office: "0136b372-cd16-40b3-8382-9721839022b9"
  tenure: "dd77269b-4101-40a2-8bac-0e4ab4cef4cf"
  jurisdiction: "06998785-0f38-4012-a7b8-36d174db5674"
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"
---

# Steve Southerland

Current TN Senate District 9 (TN State Senate District 9).

Represents [TN State Senate District 9](/us/states/tn/districts/senate/9.md).

## Sources

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

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