Admitted
1990, Tennessee; 1991, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee; 1995, U.S. District Court, Middle District of Tennessee; 1997, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit and U.S. Tax Court; 1998, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
Law School
University of Tennessee at Knoxville, J.D., with high honors, 1990
Law School Graduation Year
1990
College
East Tennessee State University, B.S., magna cum laude, 1980
Memberships
Chattanooga, Tennessee (Member, Sections on: Litigation; Labor and Employment Law, 1990—) Bar Associations. Recipient, Justice Joseph W. Henry Award for Outstanding Legal Writing, presented by Tennessee Bar Association, June, 2003.
Biographical
Order of the Coif. John W. Green Law Scholar. Author: Race in America - How Far Have We Come? Human Rights, Vol. 19, No. 3, Summer 1992; How to Get Patient Records From Federally Assisted Substance Abuse Education and Rehabilitation Facilities, Tennessee Bar Journal, Vol. 30, No. 3, May-June 1994; After-Acquired Evidence in Defending Employment Discrimination Claims, Defense Counsel Journal, Vol. 61, No. 3, October 1994; The Handwriting on the Wall: The State of Handwriting Expert Testimony in Tennessee, Tennessee Bar Journal, Vol. 34, No. 5, Sept.-Oct., 1998; A Murky Intersection Between Employment Law and 'Business', Tennessee Bar Journal, Vol. 38, No. 11, November, 2002.