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Richie Beeler

Republican · District 8 · Sep 1, 2020 – Aug 31, 2024

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Richie Beeler has cast 2,811 published votes on the Knox County, TN Board of Commissioners, attending 93.9% of recorded roll calls, with 324 motions made and 7 dissents (a “no” on an adopted item).

On the issues

Attendance

2639 of 2811

recorded votes he or she was present for

present means neither absent nor recused

172

recorded votes marked absent or recused

Counted from roll calls, not a sign-in sheet — a member who was present but recorded no vote is indistinguishable here from one who was absent.

When the board disagrees

124 contested decisions · how these are counted

124

contested decisions he or she cast a yes or no on

a decision is contested when at least one member voted the other way

7

of those, voted no on something adopted anyway

324 / 227

motions moved / seconded

Recaps: First 100 days · 2024 in review · 2023 in review · 2022 in review · 2021 in review · 2020 in review

Patterns

How these are computed ↓

Deterministic breakdowns of Richie Beeler’s published record — not a score or a rating. Raw counts are always shown; a percentage appears only once there are at least 10 votes. As of the meeting of August 31, 2026 — the newest published record.

Votes by topic

Topic Votes Aye No Abstain Body median
Zoning & land use 518 495 (96%) 18 (3%) 4 11–0 See votes →
Budget & taxes 122 117 (96%) 0 (0%) 0 10–0 See votes →
Contracts & purchasing 437 415 (95%) 0 (0%) 0 11–0 See votes →
Personnel & appointments 216 195 (90%) 6 (3%) 1 11–0 See votes →
Schools 406 386 (95%) 0 (0%) 0 11–0 See votes →
Public safety 170 158 (93%) 2 (1%) 1 11–0 See votes →
Roads & infrastructure 249 221 (89%) 0 (0%) 1 11–0 See votes →
Parks & community 92 80 (87%) 1 (1%) 0 11–0 See votes →
Intergovernmental & resolutions 251 226 (90%) 2 (1%) 0 11–0 See votes →
Surveillance & privacy technology 7 5 0 0 10–0 See votes →

Attendance & dissent over time

Attendance rate

Dissents (no on adopted)

Sep 2020 Dec 2024
Full term · Sep 2020–Dec 2024. Vertical lines mark election dates.
  • May 3, 2022 · County primary
  • Aug 4, 2022 · County general
  • Mar 5, 2024 · County primary
  • Aug 1, 2024 · County general

Source: Knox County Election Commission.

Year Votes Present Attendance Dissents
2020 267 267 100% 0 See votes →
2021 664 664 100% 1 See votes →
2022 604 604 100% 5 See votes →
2023 745 615 83% 0 See votes →
2024 531 489 92% 1 See votes →

Agreement with other members

Computed over contested votes only — the 124 non-unanimous (split) votes Richie Beeler cast, where the room recorded at least one Aye and at least one No. Unanimous votes are excluded because they carry no signal.

Member Voted the same Shared split votes
Gina Oster 56 of 60 (93%) 60
Terry Hill 88 of 114 (77%) 114
Kyle Ward 89 of 118 (75%) 118
Justin Biggs 41 of 55 (75%) 55
Dasha Lundy 84 of 114 (74%) 114
Carson Dailey 89 of 123 (72%) 123
Charles Busler 39 of 55 (71%) 55
Larsen Jay 87 of 124 (70%) 124
Courtney Durrett 82 of 117 (70%) 117
Randy Smith 40 of 60 (67%) 60
Kim Frazier 31 of 58 (53%) 58
John Schoonmaker 62 of 119 (52%) 119
Rhonda Lee 30 of 61 (49%) 61

See Richie Beeler’s split votes →

Motions made & seconded, by topic

Topic Made Seconded
Zoning & land use 87 39 See votes →
Budget & taxes 4 9 See votes →
Contracts & purchasing 51 27 See votes →
Personnel & appointments 23 17 See votes →
Schools 29 43 See votes →
Public safety 15 16 See votes →
Roads & infrastructure 32 24 See votes →
Parks & community 5 7 See votes →
Intergovernmental & resolutions 15 18 See votes →

How these breakdowns are computed

Every figure on this page is a deterministic computation over Richie Beeler’s published roll-call votes on Knox County, TN Board of Commissioners — the same record set behind the vote table below. Nothing is a composite score, a grade, or a ranking. The general pipeline (sources, extraction, gates, review) is described on the methodology page.

  • Votes by topic. Each published motion is attributed to every distinct neutral topic its agenda items carry — the primary subject and any secondary tags alike, so an item counts under every topic it’s about (and a consent-calendar motion covering several items counts under each); procedural items are excluded, as in the default vote browser. Aye/No/Abstain are counts of Richie Beeler’s own vote. A percentage is shown only when the topic has at least 10 votes. Body median is the median of the Aye and No tallies across the same motion set — the typical room split on that topic.
  • Attendance & dissent over time. Bucketed by the calendar year of each meeting. Attendance = votes where Richie Beeler was recorded present (not absent or recused) ÷ total votes that year; the percentage is shown only when the year has at least 10 votes. Dissents = “No” votes on motions the body adopted anyway. The denominators for every year are in the table above.
  • Term timeline & election markers. The two trend strips plot the yearly attendance and dissent figures above on a single time axis spanning Richie Beeler’s full term (Sep 1, 2020–Aug 31, 2024). The vertical lines mark public election-calendar dates — candidate-filing deadlines, primaries, and general elections — that fall within that span, each labeled with its date and type. Those dates are a matter of public record (source: Knox County Election Commission); the timeline itself makes no claim about them. It marks the dates and draws the line; any pattern near an election is the reader’s to notice, not ours to assert.
  • Agreement with other members. Computed over contested votes only — motions where the roll call recorded at least one Aye and at least one No. For each colleague, the record set is the split motions where both cast an Aye or No (their seated overlap); “voted the same” counts the motions they cast the identical value on. A percentage is shown only when that shared set reaches 10 votes. Unanimous votes are excluded on purpose: they would launder everyone into near-total agreement.
  • Motions made & seconded. Straight counts of published motions where Richie Beeler is recorded as the mover or the seconder in the minutes, grouped by the motion’s neutral topic(s).

Campaign finance

Reproduced from Richie Beeler’s own campaign-finance disclosures — a public record. Amounts are the totals stated on each filing, or the itemized schedule where the filing’s own totals are not machine-readable; each row links to the filed document. We add nothing the filing does not state.

Report Raised Spent Filed
PreGeneral2026 County Clerk as of Jul 30, 2026 $100total as filed $100total as filed easyvote — PreGeneral2026 →
Beeler 2Q 2026 County Clerk as of Jul 6, 2026 $5,546total as filed $11,229total as filed easyvote — Beeler 2Q 2026 →
PrePrimary2026 County Clerk as of Apr 27, 2026 $3,258total as filed $15,518total as filed easyvote — PrePrimary2026 →
RichieBeelerClerk 1Q26 County Clerk as of Apr 6, 2026 $23,626total as filed $6,699total as filed easyvote — RichieBeelerClerk 1Q26 →
Year End Supplemental 25 County Clerk as of Jan 30, 2026 $9,311total as filed $18,278total as filed easyvote — Year End Supplemental 25 →
Mid Year Supplemental County Clerk as of Jul 14, 2025 $12,868total as filed $1,770total as filed easyvote — Mid Year Supplemental →

The county’s structured data does not carry the itemized schedule for the PreGeneral2026 report, so individual contributors and payees are not listed here. The filing itself lists them — follow its source link above.

Totals are the sum of the itemized contribution and expenditure schedules as disclosed. Schedules are itemized only at or above the filing threshold; sub-threshold amounts and the filer’s stated cover-page totals are not part of this structured record, so they are not shown here rather than guessed.

Disclosed interests

Reprinted from Richie Beeler’s annual Statement of Interests (Form SS-8005) — a public record filed with the Tennessee Ethics Commission. Entity names and categories exactly as filed, for the official and spouse; the form states no dollar amounts, and neither do we. Each filing links to its source.

2024

Category Entity Held by
Income source / employer FAIRVIEW BAPTIST CHURCH Official
Investment NATIONWIDE 457; ATLANTIC COAST LIFE- ANNUITY; GUIDESTONE 403B; USI CONSULTING 401A Official

Source filing →

Appointments moved

Board and committee appointments Richie Beeler moved or seconded, as recorded in the minutes. Each links to the full decision, where the complete roll call is shown.

Appointee Board Term Decision
Travis Wright Knox County Board of Education not stated Mar 6, 2024 →

Voting record

Meeting Agenda item Vote Badges
Sep 1, 2020
R-20-9-103-SS Resolution continuing participation in Joint Education Committee and appointing members CONSIDERATION OF A RESOLUTION OF THE COMMISSION OF KNOX COUNTY, TENNESSEE, PROVIDING FOR THE COMMISSION’S CONTINUED PARTICIPATION IN THE JOINT EDUCATION COMMITTEE THROUGH AUGUST 31, 2021 AND APPOINTING/REAPPOINTING THREE (3) COMMISSIONERS TO SERVE ON SAID COMMITTEE - R-20-9-103-SS:
Aye
Unanimous
Sep 1, 2020
R-20-9-102-SS Resolution appointing/reappointing commissioner to Development Corporation Board CONSIDERATION OF A RESOLUTION OF THE COMMISSION OF KNOX COUNTY, TENNESSEE, APPOINTING/REAPPOINTING A COMMISSIONER TO SERVE ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION OF KNOX COUNTY ALONG WITH THE CHAIR AND VICE-CHAIR OF THE COMMISSION - R-20-9-102-SS:
Aye
Unanimous
Sep 1, 2020
R-20-9-101-SS Resolution appointing commissioners to standing committees CONSIDERATION OF A RESOLUTION OF THE COMMISSION OF KNOX COUNTY, TENNESSEE, APPOINTING COMMISSIONERS TO THE STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE KNOX COUNTY COMMISSION (STANDING COMMITTEES NOT COMPOSED OF THE ENTIRE MEMBERSHIP OF THE COMMISSION INCLUDE THE RULES COMMITTEE, COURT SUBCOMMITTEE, INSOLVENCY BOARD AND LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE) - R-20-9-101-SS:
Aye
Unanimous
Sep 1, 2020
R-20-9-101-SS Resolution appointing commissioners to standing committees CONSIDERATION OF A RESOLUTION OF THE COMMISSION OF KNOX COUNTY, TENNESSEE, APPOINTING COMMISSIONERS TO THE STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE KNOX COUNTY COMMISSION (STANDING COMMITTEES NOT COMPOSED OF THE ENTIRE MEMBERSHIP OF THE COMMISSION INCLUDE THE RULES COMMITTEE, COURT SUBCOMMITTEE, INSOLVENCY BOARD AND LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE) - R-20-9-101-SS:
Aye
Unanimous
Sep 1, 2020
R-20-9-101-SS Resolution appointing commissioners to standing committees CONSIDERATION OF A RESOLUTION OF THE COMMISSION OF KNOX COUNTY, TENNESSEE, APPOINTING COMMISSIONERS TO THE STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE KNOX COUNTY COMMISSION (STANDING COMMITTEES NOT COMPOSED OF THE ENTIRE MEMBERSHIP OF THE COMMISSION INCLUDE THE RULES COMMITTEE, COURT SUBCOMMITTEE, INSOLVENCY BOARD AND LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE) - R-20-9-101-SS:
Aye
Unanimous
Sep 1, 2020
R-20-9-101-SS Resolution appointing commissioners to standing committees CONSIDERATION OF A RESOLUTION OF THE COMMISSION OF KNOX COUNTY, TENNESSEE, APPOINTING COMMISSIONERS TO THE STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE KNOX COUNTY COMMISSION (STANDING COMMITTEES NOT COMPOSED OF THE ENTIRE MEMBERSHIP OF THE COMMISSION INCLUDE THE RULES COMMITTEE, COURT SUBCOMMITTEE, INSOLVENCY BOARD AND LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE) - R-20-9-101-SS:
Aye
Unanimous
Sep 1, 2020
R-20-9-101-SS Resolution appointing commissioners to standing committees CONSIDERATION OF A RESOLUTION OF THE COMMISSION OF KNOX COUNTY, TENNESSEE, APPOINTING COMMISSIONERS TO THE STANDING COMMITTEES OF THE KNOX COUNTY COMMISSION (STANDING COMMITTEES NOT COMPOSED OF THE ENTIRE MEMBERSHIP OF THE COMMISSION INCLUDE THE RULES COMMITTEE, COURT SUBCOMMITTEE, INSOLVENCY BOARD AND LEGISLATIVE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE) - R-20-9-101-SS:
Aye
Unanimous
Sep 1, 2020
Re-organization of the commission with election of Chair and Vice-Chair CONSIDERATION OF THE RE-ORGANIZATION OF THE KNOX COUNTY COMMISSION WITH THE ELECTION OF CHAIR AND VICE-CHAIR:
Abstain
Sep 1, 2020
Re-organization of the commission with election of Chair and Vice-Chair CONSIDERATION OF THE RE-ORGANIZATION OF THE KNOX COUNTY COMMISSION WITH THE ELECTION OF CHAIR AND VICE-CHAIR:
Aye
Unanimous
Sep 1, 2020
Re-organization of the commission with election of Chair and Vice-Chair CONSIDERATION OF THE RE-ORGANIZATION OF THE KNOX COUNTY COMMISSION WITH THE ELECTION OF CHAIR AND VICE-CHAIR:
Aye
Split
Sep 1, 2020
Re-organization of the commission with election of Chair and Vice-Chair CONSIDERATION OF THE RE-ORGANIZATION OF THE KNOX COUNTY COMMISSION WITH THE ELECTION OF CHAIR AND VICE-CHAIR:
Aye
Unanimous
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