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Justin P. Wilson

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Adjunct Professor of Law .Comptroller, State of Tennessee

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Email: justin.wilson@vanderbilt.edu

Education

Master’s of Criminal Justice - Kentucky-Western University
LL.M. New York University
J.D. Vanderbilt University
A.B. Stanford University

Biography

Justin Wilson was elected Tennessee State Comptroller on January 15, 2009. Professor Wilson has spent much of his legal career as a partner at Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, where he focused his practice on environmental and energy matters and government relations, as well as trust and estate planning and charitable organizations.

From 1996 to 2003, Professor Wilson served as deputy governor for policy to Tennessee Governor Don Sundquist and as the governor's chief policy advisor and as commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation. In 2002, Tennessee's 54th state park - a 300-mile trail across the state and the land surrounding the trail - was named the Justin P. Wilson Cumberland Trail State Park in recognition of his "conservation and environmental contributions to the State of Tennessee."

Before serving as deputy governor during the Sundquist administration, Professor Wilson practiced law from 1976 to 1996 as a member of Waller Lansden. He rejoined the firm after leaving his position as deputy governor in early 2003.

Professor Wilson also serves as chairman of the Nashville Power Board, which governs Nashville Electric Service, the nation's eleventh largest public power distributor. He is a member of the Environmental Financial Advisory Board of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, which provides advice and analysis to EPA's administrator on paying for the growing costs of environmental protection and how to increase investment in environmental infrastructure through the leveraging of public and private resources. He is also on the executive committee of the board of trustees of Watkins College and the executive committee of the Tennessee Bar Association's committee on environment.

At Vanderbilt, he teaches Estate Taxation & Planning and has taught Professional Responsibility.



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