Hon. Lee Head, judge of the county court of Sumner County, and junior member of the firm of Head Bros., was born in Sumner County in 1849; son of John W. and Evaline B. (Brooks) Head. (For further particulars of parents, see sketch of Chas. R. Head.) Our subject received his education at Kentucky's military institute, and at the Cumberland University at Lebanon, graduating from the law department in 1871. He immediately joined his brother Charles and his father in the law office in Gallatin and commenced his practice. In 1873 and 1875 he was elected to the Lower House of the State Legislature and served on the judiciary committee and chairman on committee on elections. In 1878 he was elected judge of the county court of Sumner County and has been elected each succeeding year since. In 1881 Lee married Miss Nellie Gillespie, a native of Sumner County, born in 1862, and a daughter of R. G. Gillespie. To them were born two children: Graham and Charles R. Mr. Head is member of the K. of H., the K. of P., and he and wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South. Head Bros. are Democrats in politics.