TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Jarod Word on Aug 15, 2024

Former North Carolina Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley will join part two of the TBA’s Mockingbirds and the Rest of Us series on Aug. 28. Beasley, a University of Tennessee Law School alumna and judge for nearly 25 years, was the first Black woman to serve as chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. She also was the state's Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate and served as a fall 2023 resident fellow at Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics. Mockingbirds and the Rest of Us is a three-part discussion led by attorneys Buck Lewis and Doug Blaze, the founders of the Institute for Professional Leadership at the University of Tennessee Law School. The sessions examine the role lawyers play in leading their communities using the lens of the "To Kill a Mockingbird" book and recent screenplay adaptation by Aaron Sorkin. Learn more and register here.