Editing Tennessee General Assembly (section)

===Leadership===
Each house sets its own rules and elects its own [[speaker (politics)|speaker]]; the Speaker of the Senate carries the additional title and office of [[Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee]]. For over three decades, both speakers were from [[West Tennessee]]; this caused considerable resentment in the eastern two-thirds of the state. From 1971 until January 2007, Tennessee had the same lieutenant governor, [[John S. Wilder]], a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]]. Wilder was re-elected to the position even after Tennessee Republicans re-took the state senate in the 2004 election. However, in January 2007, after Republicans gained additional seats in the 2006 General Assembly elections, the Senate elected [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] [[Ron Ramsey]] (from [[East Tennessee]]) to the office of lieutenant governor. The current lieutenant governor is Republican Randy McNally, who was elected in January 2017. The 111th General Assembly of Tennessee has 32 new legislators, with 28 of those legislators in the House. The 111th General Assembly also had a new Speaker of the House and majority leader in the Senate, respectively, and new lawmakers in leadership positions. The current speaker of the House is Cameron Sexton, who was elected in 2019.