Amy Fenner is the Democratic nominee for Knox County Board of Education District 7 in the August 6, 2026 general election, challenging Republican incumbent Steve Triplett 1. Her priorities are fully funded schools with universal Pre-K and properly fed students - "It starts with fully funded schools and continues with universal Pre-K and properly fed students" - funding equity so "every district should have the same safe and up to date buildings," opposition to book banning and to school vouchers, and monitoring bullying 1. She says she changed her position on Tennessee's third-grade retention law after researching its impact, concluding it was "traumatizing and nonproductive" despite initially supporting it 1.
Fenner, 46, is a small-business owner 12.
She emphasizes willingness to work across political divides while prioritizing her district's needs and equitable countywide funding 1.
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