(AP) — Twenty-five years ago, the exclusionary reputation of a Knoxville country club led to a furor when the University of Tennessee feared that its first African-American basketball coach would be rejected based on race. Herbert Slatery, who previously served as Republican Gov. Bill Haslam's chief legal counsel, on his application to become the state's top attorney listed his membership in Cherokee Country Club. Then-UT President Lamar Alexander — a former Republican governor now seeking a third term in the U.S.