Admitted: 1976, Tennessee; 1977, Georgia
Law School: University of Tennessee at Knoxville, J.D.
Member: Chattanooga (Member, Board of Governors, 1983-1985), Tennessee (Member, Board of Governors, 1985-1994; President, 1992-1993; Member, Standing Committee on Ethics) 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; Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers; Brock-Cooper Chapter American Inns of Court Fellow: Chattanooga Bar Foundation; Tennessee Bar Foundation; American Bar Foundation.
Biography: Phi Kappa Phi; Order of the Coif. Listed, Best Lawyers in America, 2005-2007. 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., 1986-2002 and Thomson-West 2006, 2007-2008 and 2008-2009; 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, 1995-2003. Member: Mediation Panel, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee; Tennessee Supreme Court Rule 31 Listed Neutral Mediator.
Born: Chattanooga, Tennessee, February 1, 1946