BULLETIN BOARD

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Caroline Beavers has joined the TBA as membership coordinator. She has been a realtor, working most recently with The Pilkerton Company in Brentwood, and was owner of an antique business in Edmond, Okla. Prior to that she was legal assistant in the Office of Legal Counsel at the University of Oklahoma. She received her bachelor of business administration and paralegal certification from the University of Oklahoma.

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Tennessee Court of Appeals Presiding Judge Houston Goddard died April 2 in Knoxville. A former member of the Tennessee General Assembly, he was first elected to the Court of Appeals in 1974.

Marilyn Virginia Yarbrough, who served as Dean of the University of Tennessee College of Law from 1987 through 1991, died at her home in Chapel Hill, N.C., on March 10.

The law office of Bone McAllester Norton PLLC announces that Stephen Zralek has joined the law firm. He represents political action committees, businesses, individuals, current office holders and candidates who wish to participate in elections and make or accept contributions within the bounds of the Federal Election Campaign Act and various state laws.

Zralek received his law degree from the University of Tennessee and his bachelor's degree from Xavier University.

Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs LLP announced that John S. Wilson III has become a member of the firm.

Wilson has substantial legal experience in the tobacco and banking industries, and concentrates his practice in the areas of products liability, antitrust and commercial litigation. He received his law degree from the University of Memphis and his bachelor's degree from Southern Methodist University in 1992.

Chattanooga-based Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel PC, announces that Timothy M. Gibbons and Rachel E. Guild have joined the firm.

Gibbons joins the firm's litigation practice as a shareholder and will focus on construction law, commercial law and alternative dispute resolution. He received his undergraduate degrees from the Georgia Institute of Technology and his law degree from the University of Georgia.

Guild joins the firm's business section as an associate, focusing her practice on real estate and property land use. She earned her undergraduate degree from Samford University and law degree from the University of Tennessee.

Joe Goodman, principal with Stokes Bartholomew Evans & Petree, has been named to Worth Magazine's "Top 100 Most Exclusive Wealth Advisors" list.

He is a founding member and director of the Belmont University Center for Family Business, and last year he was one of four attorneys nationwide to receive a Certificate in Family Business Advising with Fellow Status by the Family Firm Institute.

The Memphis firm of Burch, Porter & Johnson PLLC, announces that Courtney Ellis and Emily Farrow have joined the firm as associates. Ellis graduated from Harvard University cum laude and received her law degree from Vanderbilt University. Farrow is a magna cum laude graduate of Vanderbilt University and earned her law degree from the University of Memphis.

Douglas F. Halijan, a member of Burch, Porter, was recognized by the Memphis Business Journal as one of the "Top 40 under 40" business and community leaders in Memphis for 2003. He focuses his practice in the areas of intellectual property, computer law, and commercial litigation and is the author of articles on the law of trade secrets and on Tennessee invasion of privacy law. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Rhodes College, and he earned his law degree from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was articles editor of the University of Pennsylvania Law Review.

Armstrong Allen PLLC attorney Ross B. Clark II has been named president-elect of the Tennessee Supreme Court Historical Society by the organization's Board of Directors. He will assume the office of president in October, 2004.

Clark is a graduate of the University of the South and the University of Tennessee College of Law. He has practiced law in Memphis since 1962 with a focus on employment and labor law.

Last February in San Antonio, Texas, Marcia Eason was inducted as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation. She has been a partner with Miller & Martin since 1987, has served as president of Tennessee Lawyers Association for Women and is involved in many community organizations including the AIM Center and United Way of Greater Chattanooga. Eason practices in the area of litigation.

The Society of Industrial and Office Realtors has accepted the law firm of Stokes Bartholomew Evans & Petree as an associate member under the appointment of Darlene Marsh as the company's representative.

Marsh practices in the areas of commercial real estate, environmental law and public finance, and has written and taught extensively on environmental and real estate topics.

A new chair at Vanderbilt University Law School advances the school's program in law and business and honors one of the school's former administrators and long-time supporters. The John S. Beasley II Chair in Law and Business was awarded to its first recipient, Professor Randall Thomas, in a ceremony on Feb. 18. The chair honors Beasley, a 1954 graduate of the Law School and a former faculty member, associate dean and director of admissions there.

Thomas joined the Vanderbilt faculty in 2000 and teaches courses in corporate law, including corporations and business entities, securities regulations, business acquisitions and mergers, and the life cycle of the corporation.

Teresa Rider Bult has become a partner with the Nashville office of the law firm of Constangy, Brooks & Smith LLC.

Bult has defended cases involving claims of sexual harassment, national origin, religious, race, disability, and age discrimination claims at both the trial and appellate level. She received her law degree from Pepperdine University School of Law and her bachelor's degree from John Brown University.

James C. Duff, managing partner of the Washington office of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell and Berkowitz, has joined the National Center for State Courts' Lawyers Committee, which involves prominent practicing attorneys in the National Center's work and programs. Prior to joining Baker Donelson, Duff served for four years as the administrative assistant to Chief Justice of the United States William H. Rehnquist.

Kramer, Rayson, Leake, Rodgers & Morgan LLP with offices in Knoxville and Oak Ridge announces that Francis L. Lloyd Jr. has joined the firm as special counsel and that Charles E. Young Jr. has been named a partner. The firm is pleased to announce that D. E. Betsy Johnson and William J. Carver have joined the firm as associates.

Lloyd graduated in 1978 from the University of Richmond, Phi Beta Kappa, and in 1981 from the University of Virginia School of Law. He has experience at the trial and appellate level in a broad range of civil litigation, including personal injury, medical malpractice, commercial and employment litigation, and arbitration and mediation.

Young practices complex litigation and has experience in business, employment, intellectual property, aviation and First Amendment matters. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Tennessee College of Law and previously served as a law clerk to the Hon. Bailey Brown of the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Memphis.

At the 25th anniversary celebration of The Association for Women Attorneys, Judge Kay Spalding Robilio, Circuit Court Division V, 30th Judicial District, was honored with the 2003 Marion Griffin/Frances Loring Award. She was recognized for her contributions to both the state and local Women's Bar Association and to the community through her television show, A Question of Law.

The native Memphian graduated cum laude from the University of Memphis and received her law degree from its Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law. She was the first woman elected to serve a full eight-year term on the Shelby County Circuit Court. She has recently served as the president of the Tennessee Lawyers' Association for Women and is currently celebrating her 20th year on the bench.

Murfree, Cope, Hudson & Scarlett in Murfreesboro announces that Josh A. McCreary has become a partner in the firm. McCreary earned his bachelor's degree, cum laude, from David Lipscomb University and his law degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Tennessee College of Law, where he also served as a member and editor of the Tennessee Law Review.

The partners of King & Ballow Law Offices have elected Howard M. Kastrinsky as the new head of their employment and discrimination section. His practice concentrates on the representation of management in all workplace-related matters, with an emphasis on employment discrimination.

Kastrinsky received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University and received his law degree with honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a member of the order of the coif.

Lacy, Moseley & Crossley PC announces that Robert Pinson won the 2002-03 Cunningham Excellence in Legal Writing Award for his paper, "Is Nanotechnology Prohibited by the Biological and Chemical Weapons Conventions?" The paper discusses how potential uses of nanotechnology might fit within the scope of the Biological Weapons Convention and the Chemical Weapons Convention.

Pinson is a native of Nashville and graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Law. He wrote the paper during his last semester of law school and accepted an offer to publish by the Berkeley Journal of International Law.

Roger Nell has returned from Operation Iraqi Freedom. A reserve judge advocate with the 139th Legal Support Organization in Nashville, he was mobilized in February 2003, deployed with the 101st Airborne Division in March 2003, and redeployed to Fort Campbell in February 2004. Initially assigned to division headquarters, he was attached to 1st Brigade (327th Infantry Regiment, the Bastogne Brigade) after the grenade attack in Kuwait on that headquarters injured the regularly assigned judge advocate.

Upon returning to the States, he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel. He received his law degree with honors from Drake University and graduated from the University of Iowa with honors in history. Upon release from active duty he will return to his position as district public defender for the 19th Judicial District of Tennessee.

John A. Meuller has become an associate with the Nashville office of Smythe & Puryear.

Michael Combs, an attorney practicing in Nashville, has successfully completed the requirements for recertification in consumer bankruptcy law.

The Chattanooga-based law firm of Shumacker Witt Gaither & Whitaker, P.C., which was created when the principals of Shumacker & Thompson, P.C. and Witt Gaither & Whitaker, P.C. combined their practices, is pleased to announce that it has consolidated its downtown Chattanooga offices. The firm's headquarters are located at 1100 SunTrust Building, 736 Market Street, and the firm maintains a second office at the CBL Center, 2030 Hamilton Place Boulevard, Suite 210, in Chattanooga.

The slate of officers and board of directors of the Marion Griffin Chapter of the Lawyers' Association for Women for 2004-05 has been announced and was voted on at L.A.W.'s annual meeting in April. They are Kathryn Barnett, president; Leesa Hinson, president-elect; April Ingram, secretary; Pat Moskal, treasurer. Archivists are Judy Johnson and Sohnia Hong. Newsletter editors are Clisby Barrow, Beth Derrick and Keltie Hays. First-year directors are Connie Clark and Katie Edge. Second-year directors are Beth Alexander and Kelvin Jones. Past president is Jackie Dixon.

Circuit Court Judge J. S. "Steve" Daniel of Murfreesboro will step down from the 16th Judicial District position to become a senior judge effective Sept. 1. Retired Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Jerry Scott also will become a senior judge, effective July 1. He also will leave his Murfreesboro law practice and no longer serve as chief disciplinary counsel for the Tennessee Court of the Judiciary.