TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Oct 7, 2021

The judges of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee have named Jill E. McCook as the court’s next magistrate judge. McCook will succeed Magistrate Judge H. Bruce Guyton, who will retire from the bench in January 2022. McCook has served as an attorney for the Tennessee Valley Authority for the past three and a half years. Prior to that, she was an attorney at Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz and Greenberg Traurig, and a law clerk to District Judge Thomas A. Varlan. She has also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Tennessee College of Law, where she taught legal process. She earned her law degree from Washington & Lee University School of Law and is admitted to practice in Tennessee and New York. McCook recently co-authored "Getting to Know the Federal Executive Branch Ethics Laws: A Primer," Part I in March and Part 2 in May for the Tennessee Bar Journal.