Alumni Notes
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Pauline Weaver has been elected as a council member of the American Bar Association’s Civil Rights and Social Justice Section and appointed as a special advisor to the ABA’s Criminal Justice Section.
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G. Clay Morris has been honored with the prestigious “AV rating” by Martindale-Hubbell, the preeminent national publication in the legal field.
Weaver
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Judge Timothy Dwyer was awarded The Lifetime Achievement Award by the Tennessee General Sessions Judges Conference.
Michael T. Evangelisti recently joined the law firm of Glankler Brown, PLLC as a member. Mr. Evangelisti concentrates his practice in the areas of general corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, securities, commercial transactions, contracts, intellectual property, estate planning and probate.
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Beth Enos’ book, “Your Breath is Your Guru,” was recently published under her pen name of Galen Pearl.
John S. Penton, Jr. was recently awarded his PhD from Louisiana State University in Environmental Science, minoring in Oceanography and Coastal Sciences. He was also awarded the Kuniko Fujisaki Honor by the Department of Environmental Sciences.
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Greg Duckett was recently named, by unanimous vote, as the 2024 chairman of the board of the Greater Memphis Chamber of Commerce.
Rev. Dr. Dorothy Sanders Wells recently made history in early February, becoming the very first woman and the first African American ever elected as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi. Wells
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Presnell
Todd Presnell recently co-authored the book, “Privileges and Protections: Tennessee and Sixth Circuit Law,” published by LexisNexis. The book contains 16 chapters and over 700 pages addressing over 40 evidentiary privileges and related protections plus an extensive examination of conflict-of-laws issues and the historical origins and development of evidentiary privileges. The book satisfies a void in current legal resources by addressing distinctions between state and federal law, providing important historical privilege development and recommending appropriate solutions to open or underdeveloped privilege issues.