The Bulletin Board

Now Tennessee Bar Association members may send information about job changes, awards and work-related news. Send it to The Bulletin Board, c/o the Journal at 221 Fourth Ave. North, Suite 400, Nashville, TN 37219-2198. Submissions are subject to editing. Pictures are used on a space-available basis and cannot be returned.

Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Chief Justice Riley Anderson has asked Jimmie C. Miller of Kingsport and Robert E. Cooper Jr. of Nashville to serve as new board members on the Board of Law Examiners upon the expansion of the board from three to five members. Both were previously assistant examiners for the board. Miller, a partner with Hunter, Smith & Davis, graduated from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville with a bachelor's degree and a law degree. Cooper, an attorney with Bass Berry & Sims PLC in Nashville, is a graduate of Princeton University and received his law degree from Yale University.

Delicia R. Bryant has joined the Knoxville law firm of Howard & Howard PC. Bryant graduated magna cum laude from Mississippi College School of Law in 1999. She was an associate with the law firm of Brewer Krause & Brooks in Nashville and most recently clerked for the Hon. Patricia J. Cottrell of the Tennessee Court of Appeals.

Marlene Eskind Moses, principal in the Nashville firm of Eisenstein, Moses & Mossman, was awarded the 2001 Outstanding Fellow of the Year Award by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. She was the first lawyer in Tennessee to be certified as a Family Law Specialist and is vice president of Tennessee's Board of Law Examiners, chair of the Family Law Section of the Tennessee Bar Association, and serves on the board of the National Board of Trial Advocacy. Moses holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Tulane University and a law degree from the Nashville School of Law.

The law firm of Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, with headquarters in Nashville, has established a $100,000 endowed professorship at the University of Tennessee College of Law. Professor Amy Morris Hess will be the first holder of the professorship. The professorship is made possible by gifts and pledges from members of the firm, many of whom are UT law graduates. The firm also funds three scholarships awarded annually to students at the UT College of Law.

Stites & Harbison PLLC has added five associates to the firm's Nashville office. Edward Mitchell Graves III earned his law degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Tennessee College of Law and his bachelor's degree from the University of Tennessee. Paul Helton received his law degree, cum laude, from the University of Tennessee College of Law and bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Tennessee. J. Randolph Michels received both his bachelor's and law degrees from Vanderbilt University. Alexander C. Waddey received his law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law and his bachelor's degree from the University of Virginia. Jessica Adams Winfree received her bachelor's and law degrees from Vanderbilt University.

Maria M. Salas has received the Joseph G. Cummings Pro Bono Volunteer of the Year Award from the Nashville Bar Association. She is a member of Rothschild & Salas PLLC and is certified as a consumer bankruptcy specialist by the Tennessee commission on CLE and Specialization and the American Board of Certification. She received her bachelor's degree, summa cum laude, from Middle Tennessee State University, and her law degree from the Nashville School of Law.

Dinsmore & Shohl LLP announces that Charles K. Grant has been made a partner in the Nashville office. His practice primarily involves representing employees in all aspects of employment law and litigation. He received his law degree from the Washington & Lee University School of Law and his bachelor's degree from The Citadel.

Thomas M. Donnell Jr., managing partner of the Nashville law firm of Stewart, Estes & Donnell, has been elected to the International Who’s Who of Product Liability Defense Lawyers. Donnell is one of four attorneys in Tennessee to be invited to join the organization.

The Memphis law firm of Kiesewetter Wise Kaplan Schwimmer & Prather PLC announces a new member and a new associate to the firm. Steve Hymowitz, joining the firm as a member, received his bachelor's degree from Fordham University and graduated from the University of Memphis School of Law, where he was an associate editor of The University of Memphis Law Review. He has been practicing labor and employment law representing management since 1974. Sylvia R. Adams has joined the firm as an associate. Adams graduated cum laude from Atlantic Union College in South Lancaster, Mass., with a bachelor's degree and received her law degree, cum laude, from the University of Minnesota Law School.

Statewide law firm Stokes Bartholomew Evans & Petree announces that Arthur E. Horne III has joined the firm as an associate in its Memphis office. Horne previously worked as an associate with Glankler Brown PLLC in Memphis and prior to that, he was an associate with Waring Cox PLC. He received his bachelor's degree from Eastern Michigan University and his law degree from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock School of Law.

Jonathan Steen and Steve Regenwether were made Armstrong Allen partners on Jan. 1, 2002, after having both served two years as firm associates. Steen has been an associate in the Jackson office. He is a graduate of St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minn., and received his law degree with honors from the University of Minnesota Law School. Regenwether is a resident in the Memphis office and received his undergraduate degree from Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, Mo., and law degree from the University of Iowa.

Nashville attorneys William H. Farmer and J.W. Luna have formed a new law firm - Farmer & Luna - and will concentrate their new practice on litigation, government and regulatory issues. The firm is located at 333 Union St., Suite 300 in Nashville, the site of Andrew Jackson's original law office. Farmer and Luna are joined as partners by attorneys Mike Pearigen and Paula Flowers. All have been in practice with the Nashville firm of Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis. Farmer earned his bachelor's degree from Austin Peay State University and his law degree from the University of Tennessee. He served as an assistant U.S. attorney general for the Middle District of Tennessee from 1974 to 1978 and was the federal public defender for the Middle District from 1978 until 1984. Luna served as commissioner of the state department of personnel, commissioner of the state department of health and environment and commissioner of the state department of environment and conservation. He received his bachelor's degree from Vanderbilt University and his law degree from the University of Tennessee. Pearigen earned his law degree from the University of Tennessee after graduating with a bachelor's degree from Southwestern at Memphis (now Rhodes College). He served from 1981 to 1992 as an assistant and then deputy attorney general for environment for the state of Tennessee. Flowers earned a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from Tennessee Tech, a master's degree in civil engineering from McNeese State University in Lake Charles, La., and her law degree from the University of Tennessee. She worked as an environmental compliance engineer at the Oak Ridge Y-12 plant before joining the Waller firm as an associate in the spring of 1998.

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Cari Barr, the TBA's membership, advertising and YLD coordinator, has taken a new position with LEXIS-NEXIS.