High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Robert E. Cooper, Jr. (born 1957) is the current Attorney General of the state of Tennessee. A Democrat, Cooper Jr. was appointed by the state supreme court to that position and was sworn in as the 26th Attorney General and Reporter of Tennessee by Tennessee Supreme Court Chief Justice William M. Barker, taking office on November 1, 2006. His father served on the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1974 until 1990.