A 36-year-old Nashville mother is facing a felony charge after police say she showed up impaired to collect her child from school Thursday afternoon, then kicked an officer during her arrest. Jacklyn Martin Reha was found slumped over in the driver's seat while waiting in the car rider line at Lakeview Elementary Design Center, according to police, before school staff moved her vehicle out of the line and into the parking lot.
Police were called to the school around 3:30 p.m. Thursday after officials reported an intoxicated woman had arrived for pickup at dismissal, according to WKRN News 2. Reha was inside the school's front office when officers arrived, and they described her as having glassy, watery eyes, slow and slurred speech, and a staggered, unsteady walk. Investigators say they also found a mostly empty bottle of vodka inside her vehicle.
Reha told officers she had two shots and had been day drinking, per the station's report. She refused field sobriety tests, and as officers escorted her to the patrol vehicle, she kicked one of them near the groin, according to police.
Felony Charge Under Tennessee's Back the Blue Act
That kick landed Reha a felony charge of assault on a law enforcement officer. Under Tennessee's Back the Blue Act, which took effect in July 2024, assaulting a police officer was elevated from a misdemeanor to a Class E felony carrying a mandatory minimum of 60 consecutive days in jail and a $10,000 fine, according to WBIR. Lawmakers designed the statute specifically to turn physical altercations with officers into serious felony exposure rather than the misdemeanor scuffles they were treated as before.
Reha was ultimately booked into the Metro jail on multiple charges: DUI second offense, driving on a revoked license, and felony assault of a law enforcement officer, in addition to being charged with DUI and assault of a law enforcement officer. The DUI charge became a second offense because Reha had a prior DUI conviction out of nearby Wilson County from February 2023, and Tennessee enforces a 10-year lookback period, meaning any qualifying conviction within the past decade automatically escalates a new charge to repeat-offender status, according to Oak Grove Attorney.
Mandatory Jail Time Stacks Up Under State Law
A second DUI conviction in Tennessee carries a mandatory minimum of 45 consecutive days in jail, fines between $600 and $3,500, a mandatory two-year license revocation, and required installation of an ignition interlock device, per Tennessee Code § 55-10-402. Because Reha was allegedly impaired while waiting to pick up a minor, state law also mandates an additional minimum 30-day jail sentence and a minimum $1,000 fine on top of the standard DUI penalties, according to guidance from the Davidson County Drunk Driving Defense Lawyer.
Reha's driver's license had already been revoked because of her prior DUI conviction, and driving on a revoked license tied to a previous DUI carries mandatory jail time under Tennessee Code § 55-50-504, escalating to a Class A misdemeanor for repeat occurrences, according to the Oberman & Rice Law Firm. Even though Reha's car was parked by school staff rather than driven on a public road, Tennessee's DUI statute covers anyone in “physical control” of a vehicle on private premises frequented by the public, including school parking lots, per the National College for DUI Defense — a legal doctrine that allowed officers to charge her despite the vehicle no longer being in the pickup line at the time of arrest.
Child Welfare Review Expected to Follow
Lakeview Elementary Design Center, located on Edge O Lake Drive and serving Pre-K through fourth grade, has a scheduled dismissal time of 3:10 p.m., according to Metro Nashville Public Schools. Tennessee Department of Children's Services protocols require a child protective investigation whenever a caregiver is arrested for impaired driving while transporting or picking up a minor, according to Mandy Hancock Law, meaning Reha's case is likely to trigger an administrative review separate from the criminal charges.
The arrest lands amid a broader enforcement push across Nashville. Preliminary data from the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department showed officers completed roughly 44.7% more traffic stops in 2025 than in 2024 following Metro Council safety directives, according to WKRN News 2's earlier reporting. Separately, Metro Nashville's Criminal Justice Planning division has recorded more than 500 DUI arrests every quarter since late 2023, averaging between 530 and 610 arrests per quarter, according to Nashville.gov data, underscoring how routine impaired-driving enforcement has become for Metro police even as individual cases like Reha's carry increasingly severe mandatory penalties.
Reha has not yet been convicted, and formal case proceedings are pending. The charges against her — DUI second offense, driving on a revoked license, and felony assault of a law enforcement officer — carry compounding mandatory jail exposure under Tennessee law, though the ultimate outcome will depend on the courts.
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