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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Sep 28, 2022

Criminal defense attorney Ben McGowan has been elected president of the Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (TACDL). McGowan, an attorney with Summers, Rufolo & Rodgers, is the group’s first Chattanooga-based president in more than 25 years. He took office at TACDL’s annual meeting and conference, held over two days at the historic Read House Hotel in Chattanooga. McGowan praised the work of the organization. “TACDL is the only organization in Tennessee solely dedicated to strengthening the skills, knowledge and abilities of lawyers willing to do the sometimes thankless and often heartbreaking work of defending criminal defendants,” he tells the Hamilton County Herald.