Admitted
1986, Tennessee; 1988, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee; 1993, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
Law School
University of Tennessee, J.D., with highest honors, 1986
Law School Graduation Year
1986
College
University of Tennessee, B.S., with honors, 1978
Memberships
Knoxville (Chair CLE Committee, 1994 and 1995; Co-Chair, Membership Services Committee, 1996-1997; Co-Chair, Professionalism Committee, 1999-2003; Board of Governors, 2001-2003; Secretary, 2003), Tennessee (Member, Sections on: Labor and Employment; Chair, Litigation Section, 2002) and American (Member, Sections on: Labor and Employment; Litigation) Bar Associations.
Biographical
Phi Kappa Phi; Order of the Coif. Recipient, Chancellor's Citation, Extraordinary Academic Achievement. Member, American Inns of Court, 1988-1991. Instructor, American Institute for Charter Property & Casualty Underwriters, 1992. Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Tennessee College of Law, 1994-2003. Co-Chair, 2003 Campaign for Justice, Legal Aid of East Tennessee.