Admitted
1976, Tennessee; 1977, Georgia
Law School
University of Tennessee, J.D., 1975
Law School Graduation Year
1975
College
Vanderbilt University, B.A., 1968; Middlebury College, M.A., 1972
Memberships
Chattanooga (Member, Board of Governors, 1983-1985), Tennessee (Member, Board of Governors, 1985-1994; President, 1992-1993) and American (Member, House of Delegates, 2002—) Bar Associations; State Bar of Georgia; Defense Research Institute; Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel; International Association of Defense Counsel
Biographical
Phi Kappa Phi; Order of the Coif. Editor-in-Chief, Tennessee Law Review, 1975. Author: Workers' Compensation Outline, 18 Tenn. B. J. 11, (Aug. 1982); Tennessee Admissibility of Evidence in Civil Cases, Harrison Co., 1987. Co-author: with P. Fleissner, Tennessee Automobile Liability Insurance, Harrison Co., 1986; 1995; 1996; 1999 and 2002; with H. Moore, Mass Tort Litigation in Tennessee, 53 Tenn. L. Rev. 221, (1986). Contributing Author, Federal Practice Guide (6th circ.), Lawyers Cooperative, 1996. Judge, Tennessee Court of the Judiciary, 1995—. Approved Mediator, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee. Fellow: Chattanooga Bar Foundation; Tennessee Bar Foundation; American Bar Foundation. (Certified as a Civil Trial Advocacy Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy)