Tennessee Season to Remember Ceremony to Honor Homicide Victims December 5th

22nd annual event hosted by state and local agencies at First Baptist Church in Nashville

NASHVILLE – For more than two decades, state and local public safety officials, along with families of homicide victims, have gathered to honor and remember victims and survivors of homicide during the holiday season. This year will mark the state’s 22nd annual “Tennessee Season to Remember”, which will be held at 5:30 p.m. (CST) on Thursday, December 5 at First Baptist Church in downtown Nashville.

Scheduled speakers include John DeBerry, Senior Advisor for Governor Bill Lee and former First Lady Andrea Conte, the founder of the state’s Tennessee Season to Remember event.

This year’s keynote speaker will be Tennessee Highway Patrol Lieutenant Angelia Jeffers-Smith, whose law enforcement career started shortly after her sister Sandy Jeffers was violently killed in 2003, just days before she was set to graduate from the University of Tennessee.

At the ceremony, families from across Tennessee will hang ornaments on memorial wreaths in honor of their loved ones, which will later be displayed in the Tennessee State Capitol throughout the holiday season. The Tennessee State Capitol will also be lit in purple to honor this event and homicide victims.

Pastor Travis Duke from Murfreesboro will provide the musical tribute.

For those unable to attend in person, the ceremony will also be livestreamed from First Baptist Church (108 7th Avenue S. Nashville, TN 37203) on their YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/firstbaptistchurchnashville.

The Tennessee Board of Parole, Tennessee Department of Correction, Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, the office of Secretary of State Tre Hargett, the office of State Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, the office of State Treasurer David H. Lillard, Jr., Tennessee Department of Safety & Homeland Security, Tennessee Department of Finance & Administration’s Office of Criminal Justice Programs, Tennessee District Attorneys General Conference, and the Tennessee Rehabilitative Initiative in Correction (TRICOR) are working together on this year’s event. Also providing support are victim advocacy group You Have the Power, the U.S. Attorney’s Office Middle District of Tennessee and the Davidson County District Attorney General’s Office.