TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Feb 18, 2021

TBA member and University of Tennessee College of Law alumna Brooklyn Sawyers Belk has been selected to serve as an advocate in residence and visiting professor at the school. In addition to teaching and mentoring students, Belk will also present a community-wide lecture. Her class, titled “Race and the United States Supreme Court,” will examine the high court’s decisions on race and racism and the court’s struggle with fundamental issues of racial bias, bigotry and inequality. Belk was previously an assistant U.S. attorney, in-house counsel and a former law firm partner. She is a member of the Federal Practice and Labor and Employment Sections, a committee member of the TBA’s Mentoring Program and a 2015 graduate of the TBA Leadership Law program. Read more on Belk’s new position on the College of Law’s website.