Career
The district encompasses Anderson County, Loudon County, Monroe County, and part of Knox County. He is a resident of Oak Ridge. McNally has served in the Tennessee General Assembly since 1977.
He moved to the state senate for the 95th General Assembly in 1983, and has served there continuously since then
He was a candidate for Lieutenant Governor and Speaker of the Senate in 2007, but fellow Republican Ron Ramsey was elected to that position. McNally graduated from Oak Ridge High School in 1962, obtained a Bachelor of Surgery from Memphis State University in 1967, and graduated from University of Tennessee College of Pharmacy in 1969.
Beginning in the late 1960s, he worked as a pharmacist in chain drug stores. Since 1978 he has been employed as a hospital pharmacist at Methodist Medical Center in Oak Ridge.
