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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jan 19, 2022

Lonnie T. Brown Jr., a law professor at the University of Georgia School of Law, has been named dean of the University of Tennessee College of Law and the Elvin E. Overton Distinguished Professor of Law, the school announced today. He will begin July 1. Brown currently serves as the Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor and A. Gus Cleveland Distinguished Chair of Legal Ethics and Professionalism at Georgia. He previously served as an associate dean for academic affairs at the law school and an administrative fellow in the office of the senior vice president for academic affairs and provost. He joined the Georgia School of Law in 2002 after serving as an assistant professor at the University of Illinois College of Law and a visiting assistant professor at Vanderbilt University Law School in 1998. He was with Alston & Bird in Atlanta from 1991 to 1999. Brown received a bachelor’s degree in English from Emory University in 1986 and a law degree from Vanderbilt University Law School in 1989. He will replace Doug Blaze who has been serving as interim dean since July 2020.