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Stacy Rector
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Reverend Stacy Rector is a native of Dyersburg, Tennessee, a graduate of Rhodes College and Columbia Theological Seminary, and an ordained Presbyterian minister. She served as Associate Pastor of Second Presbyterian Church in Nashville for nine years. In 2006, Rev. Rector became Executive Director of Tennesseans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (TADP), an organization whose mission is to honor life by abolishing the death penalty. She also served as spiritual advisor to Steve Henley, an inmate on Tennessee’s death row who was executed on February 4, 2009. Reverend Rector has served on the boards of People of Faith Against the Death Penalty, UKIRK Nashville, and Community Shares Tennessee. She is also active in the Presbytery of Middle Tennessee.
Sarah McGee
Coordinator
Sarah McGee is the statewide coordinator for TASMIE, the Tennessee Alliance for the Severe Mental Illness Exclusion. TASMIE is a coalition of mental health advocates and other organizations that seek to educate Tennesseans about their concerns with sentencing those who have a severe mental illness to death. Through TASMIE, Sarah has been on the front lines of drafting, lobbying, and building diverse and bipartisan support to try to pass legislation prohibiting the state from seeking the death penalty for people with severe mental illness. From 2012-2014, Sarah completed the E. Barrett Prettyman Fellowship at Georgetown University Law Center where she earned her LL.M. with Distinction, focusing primarily on representing juveniles accused of serious crimes. Prior to Georgetown, Sarah earned her J.D. from the University of Tennessee College of Law. Sarah also served as an assistant public defender for the Nashville Defenders representing both juveniles and adults charged with a variety of offenses, where she learned first-hand the effects of mental illness in the criminal justice system. Sarah has extensively researched and written about the nationwide movement to exclude people with severe mental illness from the death penalty