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Demetrus Coonrod is among the first in Tennessee, and the U.S., to earn her voting rights back after a felony conviction.^[1][2] A formerly incarcerated Black woman, Coonrod successfully restored her voting rights in December 2016.^[3] Her achievement is notable especially in Tennessee, where voting rights restoration is more difficult than in other states, and where few citizens regain voting rights after serving time for a felony conviction.^[4][5] In Tennessee, nearly 10% of the state can't vote in elections per felony convictions.^[6] 21% of Black Tennesseans are disenfranchised.^[7] That's more than in any other state.^[8] Having restored her own voting rights, Coonrod is an advocate for the formerly convicted reentering society, fighting for the reinstatement of their civil rights, especially their voting rights, to ensure that those who have paid their debt can fully participate in civil life again.^[9] In 2022, Coonrod published a memoir, From Prison To Purpose: A Past That Shaped My Future, in which she recounts her rise from the traumas and desperations of poverty to dedicated civil servant.^[10]

Coonrod is the only convicted felon to be elected to office in Chattanooga, Tennessee.^[11] She is is a Democratic politician and currently Council Woman for District 9, voted in for her second term on April 24, 2021. She sits as chair member of the Council's Economic Development Committee.^[12] She recently announced she is running for a seat in the Tennessee House of Representatives, District 28 in November of 2024.^[13]

She is a mother, grandmother, author, and graduate of the University of Tennessee-Chattanooga where she received a bachelor's degree in Sociology in 2022.^[14]