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Russell Fowler
Legal Aid of East Tennessee

100 W. Martin Luther King Blvd., Suite 402
 Chattanooga, TN 37402

Office Phone: (423) 402-4764
Law School: Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law
Earliest License Date: 01/01/1987
Areas of Interest: Administrative Law, Civil Rights, General Practice, Judges & Courts, Legal Education & Bar Admin., Litigation - General Civil Practice
Bio:

RUSSELL FOWLER is Director of Litigation and Advocacy and Managing Attorney at Legal Aid of East Tennessee (LAET) and since 1999 has been adjunct professor of political science at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC). In 2005, he was selected UTC’s Outstanding Adjunct Professor by faculty. He served as the law clerk to Chancellor Neal Small in Memphis (1986-87) and earned his law degree at the University of Memphis in 1987. He was also with a leading civil litigation firm in Memphis for a decade and regularly served as special chancellor. Fowler has many publications on law and legal history, including for the Smithsonian Institution, the ABA, the Journal of Supreme Court History, the New England Law Review, the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, and the Tennessee Bar Journal. He writes the column “History’s Verdict” for the bar journal. In 2016, he was presented the B. Riney Green Award by the Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services (TALS) for promoting inter-program cooperation and strengthening the provision of legal aid in Tennessee. He serves on the TBA Litigation Law Section Executive Council and has taught many CLE courses across Tennessee, including subjects such as legal history, Chancery/equity practice, and Tennessee civil procedure, housing discrimination, and insurance and contract bonding litigation.


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