NASHVILLE (AP) — Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery has selected Andree Sophia Blumstein to be his solicitor general.

Blumstein will oversee appellate litigation in state and federal courts, review written opinions, as well as advise the attorney general.

For the past 21 years, she has been a partner at the Nashville firm of Sherrard and Roe PLC where she concentrated on appellate litigation, health law, taxation and antitrust.

Blumstein succeeds Acting Solicitor General Joe Whalen, who will remain with the solicitor general's office in another role.

Slatery was sworn in earlier this month as Tennessee's 27th attorney general, the first Republican to hold the office since Reconstruction.