TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Oct 27, 2022

Longtime Lewisburg attorney Walter Woods Bussart died peacefully on Tuesday. He was 80. Upon graduating from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1966, Bussart clerked for Justice Thomas Dyer of the Tennessee Supreme Court. He later founded the Bussart Law Firm in Lewisburg. During his distinguished career, Bussart partnered in law practice with notable lawyers, including Fred Thompson, Barbara Medley, and his daughter, Judge Lee Bussart. He was a fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, speaker of the House of Delegates for the TBA and was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives, serving in the 90th General Assembly. He was chosen as the Marshall County General Sessions Judge in 1972 and later appointed to the Tennessee Court of Appeals in 1997. Bussart was featured in an episode of the TBA YLD Presents: War Stories podcast in 2020, when he discussed some of his top cases and his 1994 gubernatorial primary run. Visitation will be held tomorrow from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. CDT at Bills-McGaugh Hamilton Funeral Home in Lewisburg. Funeral services will begin at 2 p.m. with interment at Round Hill Cemetery in Belfast.