Alumni in the News
This page offers links to or announcements of news coverage of Vanderbilt Law alumni. You're welcome to submit links to grace.renshaw@vanderbilt.edu.
33 Vanderbilt graduates secure judicial clerkships Gail Ashworth '83 elected president of Tennessee Bar Association
Release Date: Jul 02, 2009
VLS alums will serve in the D.C., 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 10th Circuit Courts of Appeals
Release Date: Jun 29, 2009
Danny Van Horn '97 elected vice president, to serve as president in 2011-12
Jan Neuharth '80 honored with 2009 Distinguished Service Award
Release Date: May 07, 2009
Neuharth served as president of the Law School's National Council from 2005-07
Cecil Branstetter '49 named 2009 Distinguished Alumnus
Release Date: May 07, 2009
Branstetter honored for distinguished legal career and support of Vanderbilt Law School
2009 student awards announced
Release Date: Apr 21, 2009
Scott Goldman, Georgia Sims, Byron Sarhangian & DeNae Thomas recognized for leadership contributions
Meredith Brinegar Cross, '82, named new director of SEC Division of Corporation Finance
Release Date: Apr 14, 2009
Cross comes to the SEC from WilmerHale in D.C., where she is a partner in the Corporate Finance Division
Stephen A. Owens, '81, nominated to be Assistant Administrator for EPA's Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances
Release Date: Apr 02, 2009
Owens previously directed Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
Justin Wilson, '70, elected Tennessee State Comptroller
Release Date: Jan 16, 2009
Wilson elected by joint assembly of Tennessee House and Senate
William V. Corr, '73, named Deputy Secretary at Department of Health & Human Services by President-elect Obama
Release Date: Jan 13, 2009
Corr currently heads a leading anti-tobacco organization, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
Eve Biskind Kothen, '75, wins 2009 AALS Father Drinan Award
Release Date: Jan 11, 2009
Klothen recognized for work as assistant dean for pro bono and public interest programs at Rutgers
Judge Martha Craig Daughtrey, '68, U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit, to take senior status in January
Release Date: Nov 26, 2008
Judge Daughtrey has served on the 6th Circuit for 15 years
Jim Martin, '74, appointed judge on the Tennessee Circuit Court, 21st Judicial District, Division II
Release Date: Nov 11, 2008
Gov. Phil Bredesen announces judicial appointment
M. Ann Huckstep, '78, re-elected chair of Adams & Reese's Executive Committee
Release Date: Jan 23, 2008
Huckstep unanimously re-elected chair after serving since November 2006
Chancery Court Chancellor Richard Dinkins, '77, named to Tennessee Court of Appeals
Release Date: Jan 11, 2008
Judge Dinkins' appointment announced by Gov. Phil. Bredesen
Jim Shulman, '85, named Deputy Commissioner for the Tennessee Department of Health
Release Date: Jan 04, 2008
Shulman will supervise Health Department's legislative services, communications, information technology, policy planning and minority health services
Lucy Honey Haynes, '72, named Chief Deputy Attorney General
Release Date: Jan 04, 2008
Haynes replaced Andy Bennett, '82, following his appointment to the state Court of Appeals
Larry Ahern, '72, leads certification effort
Release Date: Dec 03, 2007
Adjunct professor elected president of American Board of Certification
Mayor Karl Dean, '81, recounts rewards of 25-year career in public service
Release Date: Oct 30, 2007
Experience as Metro's legal director prepared Dean to serve as city's mayor
David Hudson, '94, authors "Supreme Court Answer Book"
Release Date: Oct 25, 2007
New book offers comprehensive overview of the Supreme Court for lay people
2007 Order of the Coif members announced
Release Date: Sep 20, 2007
22 members of the Class of 2007 honored
VULS hosts major copyright law conference
Release Date: Sep 20, 2007
Co-sponsored by the World Intellectual Property Organization & CISAC in collaboration with BMI, ASCAP and SESAC
Karl Dean '81 to succeed Bill Purcell '79 as Nashville's mayor
Release Date: Sep 12, 2007
Dean wins Sept. 11 runoff, will take office Sept. 21
Nursing experience informs health lawyer Margie Davino's practice - Profile in The Record, Bergen County, New Jersey - May 6, 2007 - Margie Davino ('83) focuses her practice at Kaufman, Borgeest and Ryan on health care; her clients include hospitals, hospices, home care agencies, doctors and other health care providers.. Davino, who was a nurse before she became a lawyer and worked as an ICU nurse at Vanderbilt Medical Center while attending law school, says, "I'm never sorry I made the change."
Class of 2008 Order of the Coif members announcedRelease Date: Sep 29, 2008
22 2008 graduates selected for membership
Bob Tuke, '76, wins Tennessee Democratic Senatorial primary
Release Date: Aug 19, 2008
Tuke challenges Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander this fall
2007 graduate Julia Elam selected as Louis Stokes Urban Health Policy Fellow
Release Date: Jul 18, 2008
Elam to serve fellowship with Congressional Black Caucus in Washington, D.C., in 2008-09
38 VLS graduates secure clerkships
Release Date: Jun 16, 2008
30 2008 grads and 8 alumni secured judicial clerkships this year
Article by Justin Leck, '08, wins writing competition
Release Date: May 23, 2008
Scholarly paper on the Kyoto Protocol wins the TBA's Jon E. Hastings Memorial Award
2008 award winners announced at Commencement
Release Date: May 23, 2008
21 2008 graduates honored for academic and professional achievements
Class of 2008 award winners announced
Release Date: May 08, 2008
22 graduates were honored for scholastic achievement and professional leadership
Brian S. Miller '95 confirmed U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Arkansas
Release Date: Apr 10, 2008
Miller previously served as a judge on the Arkansas Court of Appeals
Professor Beverly Moran and 9 Vanderbilt law alumni honored as "Top Ladies of Distinction"
Release Date: Apr 01, 2008
VLS professor and alumni honored by Nashville Capitol City Chapter of national organization
Joe P. Binkley Jr., '69, appointed Davidson County Circuit Court Judge
Release Date: Mar 26, 2008
Binkley to take seat vacated by the retirement of Judge Walter C. Kurtz, '72
Vanderbilt 3L Becky Carson wins Swope Antitrust Writing Award
Release Date: Mar 25, 2008
Carson wins one of two honorable mention awards in the 3rd Annual William E. Swope Antitrust Writing Competition
Thomson West releases 3rd edition of Norton Bankruptcy Law and Practice, edited by Bill Norton, '82
Release Date: Feb 26, 2008
13-volume treatise reflects the bankruptcy expertise of adjunct law professor and practitioner Bill Norton and more than 100 bankruptcy judges and practitioners nationwide
Bob Tuke, '76, to announce Senate candidacy
Release Date: Feb 25, 2008
Former chair of Tennessee Democratic Party will compete with 3 other candidates in Democratic primary
Jay Hardcastle, '87, named managing director of Boult Cummings Connors & Berry
Release Date: Feb 01, 2008
Hardcastle formerly headed firm's healthcare group
