Admitted
1979, Tennessee; 1989, District of Columbia, U.S. District Court, Eastern, Middle and Western Districts of Tennessee, Northern District of Mississippi and District of Columbia, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth and Tenth Circuits and U.S. Supreme Court
Law School
Vanderbilt University, J.D., 1979
Law School Graduation Year
1979
College
Middle Tennessee State University, B.S., cum laude, 1973
Memberships
Nashville (Member, Federal Courts Committee) and Tennessee Bar Associations.
Biographical
Recipient: Assistance of Counsel Award, Nashville Bar Association, 1991; Liberty Bell Award, Nashville Bar Association, 1997. Assistant Legal Counsel, Gore For President Committee, 1988. Co-Author with (now United States Senator) Fred D. Thompson: Government Use of General Criminal Statutes in the Prosecution of Environmental Crimes presented to the 1988 Federal Enforcement Conference for The Complex Crimes and Tax Litigation Committees, Section of Litigation, American Bar Association, Washington, D.C., 1991.