However, when it became apparent that Governor of Tennessee Phil Bredesen and the judicial selection commission created under the Tennessee Plan were not going to be able to agree upon two nominees to replace Anderson and fellow retiring justice A. A. Birch, Jr., Anderson agreed to continue his service on an interim basis until a successor could be named and qualified.
He was subsequently re-elected to full eight-year terms in 1982, 1990, and 1998, the last time under provisions of the Tennessee Plan.
This question was adjudicated by a special Supreme Court in a case filed by political gadfly John Jay Hooker.
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The deal went down just as planned, created what's now known as the James Quillen School of Medicine and removed the Supreme Court from the Modified Missouri Plan.
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