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Posted by: Paul Burch on Sep 7, 2023

Nashville School of Law Dean William C. Koch Jr. has been selected to receive the 2023 American Inns of Court A. Sherman Christensen Award for distinguished, exceptional and significant leadership to the American Inns of Court movement at the local, state or national level. Koch will receive the award in October at the 2023 American Inns of Court Celebration of Excellence at the Supreme Court of the United States. Koch has been a member of the organization since 1990 and its president from 2018-2020. Koch has served as president and dean of the Nashville School of Law since 2014, while also teaching constitutional law. He served as a justice on the Supreme Court of Tennessee from 2007 to 2014.