Admitted
1964, Tennessee; 1971, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit and U.S. Supreme Court
Law School
University of Tennessee, J.D., 1964
Law School Graduation Year
1964
Memberships
Knoxville (President, 1987) and Tennessee (Member, Communications Law and Litigation Sections) Bar Associations; American Inns of Court (Master of the Bench).
Biographical
Phi Alpha Delta; Kappa Tau Alpha., National Honor Society in Journalism and Mass Communications. Co-Author: with Rudolph L. Ennis, Tennessee Sunshine: The People's Business Goes Public, 42 Tennessee Law Review 527, 1975. Author: A Compilation of Tennessee Sunshine Cases 1974-1994, Tennessee Press Publications; A Review of Closed Records - The Shell of T.C.A. 10-7-503, Tennessee Hot Line Publication, 1996. Law Clerk, Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court, 1964. Deputy Law Director, City of Knoxville, 1965-1967; Instructor and Staff Attorney, Legal Clinic, University of Tennessee, College of Law, 1967-1969; Assistant District Attorney, 3rd Judicial Circuit, State of Tennessee, 1971-1974; Associate Professor, Communications Law, University of Tennessee, 1970-1988. Founder, Tennessee First Amendment Hot Line, 1992. Lecturer, Entertainment Law Symposium, University of Tennessee, College of Law, 1987-1988. Listed in Best Lawyers in America - Communications Law, 1995—.