Nashville's Hume–Fogg Academic High School defeated two-time state and national champ Family Christian Academy to win the TBA's 2004 State High School Mock Trial Competition. The team will advance to the national competition, which is in Orlando, Fla., this year, May 6–9.
The state event – sponsored by the TBA's Young Lawyers Division and held March 12 and 13 at the temporary courthouse facilities in Nashville's Metro Center – featured 19 teams from across the state competing in four rounds leading up to the championship round Saturday afternoon. That's where Hume–Fogg squared off against the Chattanooga home–school team that has dominated competition the past two years. Following behind Hume–Fogg and FCA were University School of Nashville in third place and Central High School in Memphis in fourth place.
Jordan S. Keller, a partner with Lassiter, Tidwell & Hildebrand PLLC, and Jennifer Ghanem, clerk for Hon. Marietta Shipley, are the team's attorney–coaches. Ken King is the teacher–sponsor, and Amber Findley, a student at David Lipscomb University who plans to attend law school, is the assistant coach.
Mock Trial Committee chair was David Johnson of Nashville. Nashville State Court of Appeals Judge Patricia Cottrell presided over the championship round.
For more information and photos go to http://www.tba.org/news/mocktrial_2004.html