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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jun 30, 2015

New senior counselors named at TBA convention in Memphis

NASHVILLE, June 29, 2015 — Eighty-six attorneys from around the state were honored as “senior counselors” for their service to the legal profession during the Tennessee Bar Association’s annual convention June 19 in Memphis. Senior counselors are those Tennessee Bar Association members who, during the coming membership year will reach 75 years of age or complete 50 years of practice.

This year’s class of senior counselors are:

John Edgar Acuff, Acuff & Acuff, Cookeville
Katharine Peckham Ambrose, Knoxville
Walter Lee Bailey, Attorney at Law, Memphis
Larry Sangster Banks, Banks Law Firm PA, Brownsville
Edwin Warner Bass, Bass Berry & Sims, Nashville
Robert Sanford, Brandt, Trauger & Tuke, Nashville
Dudley Black Bridgforth, Bridgforth & Buntin, Southaven, Mississippi
Richard Ward Buhrman, Buhrman Law Firm, Chattanooga
George Allen Burke, Spencer
Davis Haden Carr, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, Nashville
Jeffrey Roland Carr, Vanderbilt University, Burns
L. Stephen Cash, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina
Terrence H. Cooksey, Duncan, Oklahoma
Terese B. Deboo, Memphis
Jack V. Delany, Memphis
John Marvin Dollar, Germantown
Joe McDaniel Duncan, Burch, Porter & Johnson, Memphis
Douglas L. Dutton, Knoxville
Thomas Ross Dyer, Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, Memphis
James William, Elliott, Elliott Lawson & Minor, Bristol, Virginia
Harvey Randolph Fallin, Attorney At Law, Mountain City
Andrew Bradley Frazier, Whitworth Law Firm, Camden
Gary Neil Fritts, Attorney at Law, Dayton
Maurice W. Gerard, Stone & Hinds PC, Knoxville
John Thomas Greene, Attorney at Law, Knoxville
Charles Edward Hardiman, Madison
Hal Hardin, Nashville
Thomas Clower Harvey, Nashville
Joseph A. Heffington, The Halliburton Co., Plano, Texas
Richard Edwin Hopson, Kingsport
Gordon Richard Hostetter, Winter Park, Florida
J. Nelson Irvine, Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel PC, Chattanooga
Thomas Francis Jackson, Attorney at Law, Memphis
Jerry A. Jared, Jared & Jared, Cookeville
Charles Gordon Jenkins, Jasper
Robert Jan Jennings, Branstetter, Stranch & Jennings PLLC, Nashville
Neil McLeod Keating, First Tennessee Title Insurance Agency, Knoxville
Allan D. Kerns, Dickson
John Leslie Kiener, Jonesborough Herald & Tribune, Jonesborough
Reva Mark Kriegel, Memphis
James David Leckrone, Business & Tax Consulting, Nashville
Jane Evins Leonard, Washington, DC
Thomas E. Looney, Looney, Looney & Chadwell, Crossville
Howard David Lowrance, The Lowrence Law Firm PC, Collierville
Drannan Elmo Lunn, Attorney at Law, Burns
Allen Taylor Malone, Burch, Porter & Johnson PLLC, Memphis
Bill R. Martin, Martin Law Office, Lexington
Charles Rogers Martin, Kingsport
Carl P. McDonald, Goddard & Gamble, Maryville
George Bew McGugin, Nashville
John Alfred McReynolds, Attorney at Law, Knoxville
Ann Reilly Mostoller, Mostoller, Stulberg, Whitfield & Allen, Oak Ridge
Randall Lee Nelson, Attorney at Law, Hixson
Robert William Newell, Attorney at Law, Humboldt
Larry Bea Nolen, Attorney at Law, Athens
John Milton Norris, Norris Law Firm, Strawberry Plains
James Gregory O’Connor, Attorney at Law, Knoxville
James Wayne Owens, Resource Corporation, Hixson
David Young Parker, Attorney at Law, Nashville
Lee Louis Piovarcy, Martin, Tate, Morrow & Marston PC, Memphis
James A. Ramsey, Attorney at Law, Cordova
Robert Hamilton Robbins, Chattanooga
Larry Leonard Roberts, Nashville
Barton F. Robison, Paris
Julia S. Sayle, Sayle & Sayle Attorneys, Memphis
Albert W. Secor, FSG Bank, Chattanooga
Herbert Leon Sharber, Attorney at Law, Murfreesboro
George Thomas Shields, May’s Wholesale Dry Goods Company, Greenville, Mississippi
Kenneth Robert Shuttleworth, Shuttleworth Williams PLLC, Memphis
Carol Lynn Soloman, 8th Circuit Court, Goodlettsville
James Wallace Speed, Speed, Seta, Martin & Trivett LLC, Lawrenceville, Georgia
Gerald Howard "Jerry" Summers, Summers, Rufolo & Rodgers, Chattanooga
Winfield Scott Trundle, Jacksonville, Florida
Randell Lewis Tyree, Knoxville
Charles W. VanBeke, Wagner Myers Sanger, Knoxville
John Albert Walker, Walker & Walker PC, Knoxville
Robert Jackson Walker, Butler Snow LLP, Nashville
John Lockwood Warner, Warner Law Firm PLC, Union City
Frank Lee Watson, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC, Memphis
Patty K. Wheeler, Wimberly Lawson Wright Daves & Jones PLLC, Knoxville
Susan Payne Woodrow, Susan Payne Woodrow PC,    Waterford, Mississippi
James William Wright, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Jocelyn Dan Wurzburg, Mediation Services, Memphis
Thomas Dunlevy Yeaglin, Attorney at Law, Memphis
Edward Reuben Young, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC, Memphis

For photographs or additional biographical information on any these individuals, please contact Stacey Shrader Joslin at (615) 383-7421.