TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Barry Kolar on May 19, 2022

This year’s Bench Bar Program at the TBA Annual Convention focuses on how judges and lawyers can serve as leaders and drive success for the legal community. Panels include lawyers in government, judges as leaders and lawyers as civic leaders. Judge Rhynette Hurd from the Shelby County Circuit Court and Judge Neal McBrayer of the Tennessee Court of Appeals will moderate the first session that will also feature Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Jeffrey Bivins, 10th District Chancellor Jerri Bryant, and 20th District Criminal Court Judge Angelita Blackshear Dalton. A second panel will be moderated by TBA Vice President and Nashville attorney Ed Lanquist of Patterson Intellectual Property Law, and will feature former Nashville mayor and Frost Brown Todd lawyer Bill Purcell, Tennessee Department of Health attorney Kyonzte Hughes-Toombs, and Charles Swanson from the City of Knoxville Law Department. A third panel, moderated by TBA President Sherie Edwards of State Volunteer Mutual Insurance Company, will feature TBA Executive Director Joycelyn Stevenson and former TBA President and Chattanooga lawyer Marcy Eason of Miller & Martin PLLC.