TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Aug 17, 2022

Knoxville lawyer Stephen Ross Johnson recently was sworn in for a two-year term as treasurer of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Johnson is a criminal defense trial and appellate attorney with Ritchie, Davies, Johnson & Stovall. He is a past chair of the TBA’s Criminal Justice Section and served as the associate general counsel for the association. He is also a past president of the Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Hamilton Burnett American Inn of Court and the Tennessee Innocence Project. For many years, he was an adjunct professor and director of the Innocence and Wrongful Convictions Clinic at the University of Tennessee College of Law. Read more in a release from his firm.