Daniel Boyd Suspended

Hawkins County Juvenile Judge Daniel Boyd forged the signatures of a sitting Chancellor and a Clerk and Master on a Default Judgment of Divorce in October 2022, while working in his private law practice separate from his judicial duties. He was indicted on multiple forgery counts, along with a bribery charge alleging he attempted to influence a witness expected to testify against him in a Board of Professional Responsibility disciplinary hearing.

The Tennessee Board of Judicial Conduct suspended Boyd from his Juvenile Court seat in August 2023 over the criminal case. Boyd ultimately pleaded guilty to three counts of forgery and one count of criminal simulation, receiving supervised probation and a fine; the bribery charge — the most serious of the original counts — was dismissed as part of the resolution and is not established as fact.

He was later granted Judicial Diversion, though the presiding judge increased his probation from 18 months to two years and ordered him to repay Hawkins County $21,000 for the salary he'd continued to receive while suspended.