TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jun 16, 2023

At today’s Lawyers Luncheon, outgoing TBA President Tasha Blakney presented a number of awards. Chattanooga lawyer Russell Fowler received the Justice Joseph W. Henry Award for Outstanding Legal Writing for two voting-related articles in the March/April 2022 issue of the Tennessee Bar Journal. Rutherford County attorney Mary Bonita Tucker received the Fourth Annual Claudia Jack Award for her work as a court-appointed private practitioner for involuntary commitment proceedings. Blakney presented her President’s Award to Knoxville lawyer and former TBA President Jason Long, who chaired the search committee responsible for hiring TBA’s new executive director Sheree Wright. In addition, Nashville lawyer and TBA Communications Section member Jay Harbison presented the Fourth Estate Award to Elk Valley Times general manager and editor Lora Scripps and reporter Wanda Southerland for their reporting on Jack Daniels' exemptions from regulations while locals complained about a “whiskey fungus” created by unregulated barrel houses. Finally, former TBA President Buck Lewis presented Knoxville attorney and University of Tennessee College of Law Dean and Professor Emeritus Douglas A. Blaze with the William M. Leech Jr. Public Service Award from the TBA Young Lawyers Division Fellows.

Chancellor John Rambo received the Pamela L. Reeves Tennessee Professionalism Award at yesterday's Bench Bar Luncheon

  

Left photo: Russell Fowler (right) receives the Joe Henry Award from TBA Vice President Ed Lanquist

Right photo: Doug Blaze (right) receives the YLD Leech Award from TBA Vice President Ed Lanquist

Left photo: Lora Scripps and Wanda Southerland receive the 4th Estate Award from TBA Vice President Ed Lanquist

Right photo: Jason Long (right) receives the President's Award for his work as the chair of the Executive Director Search Committee from TBA Vice President Ed Lanquist