Vanderbilt University Law School
S. Carran Daughtrey
Adjunct Professor of Law Assistant U.S. Attorney, Middle Tennessee District
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Email: 615-736-5323
Education
J.D., B.E. Vanderbilt University
M.S. University of Wisconsin at Madison
Biography
S. Carran Daughtrey is an assistant in the United States Attorney’s office for the Middle District of Tennessee, assigned to the general crimes unit of the criminal division, where she is the Project Safe Childhood coordinator and primarily handles child exploitation cases. She also prosecutes fraud cases, firearms violations, and violent crimes. As a federal prosecutor, she investigates criminal cases, prepares indictments, handles pretrial motions and hearings, prepares and conducts jury trials, assists with the legal intern program, and provides training within the community. Prior to working at the U.S. Attorney’s office, she was an assistant district attorney general in the 20th judicial district of Tennessee for over seven years, and she clerked for U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Wiseman.
Professor Daughtrey has been teaching at Vanderbilt Law School since 1998. She currently teaches Trial Advocacy and taught a Domestic Violence Law Class from 1998 through 2002. Professor Daughtrey helped write a federal grant to launch a Domestic Violence Civil Legal Clinic at Vanderbilt Law School and she regularly teaches seminars on child exploitation and domestic violence issues to various law enforcement agencies and community organizations.
In 2000, Professor Daughtrey launched the Domestic Violence Program through the Lawyers Association for Women, a program that provides pro bono representation to victims of domestic violence at the General Sessions Order of Protection dockets in Davidson County, Tennessee. She is a member of the Nashville and Tennessee Bar Associations, the Lawyers Association for Women, and the Tennessee Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence. In the past, Professor Daughtrey has served as a Hearing Committee member on the Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility, on the boards of directors of the Tennessee Coalition Against Domestic and Sexual Violence, the Mary Parrish Center, and the Center for Health Services.
Before earning her law degree at Vanderbilt, Professor Daughtrey worked in the computer engineering field for several years, having received a Bachelor's degree in engineering from Vanderbilt University and a Masters of computer sciences from the University of Wisconsin. She was a Wade Scholar at Vanderbilt law school and served as the special project editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review, a member of the Moot Court board, president of the Women’s Law Student’s Association, and program director for the Intellectual Property Society.
Representative Publications
Articles
"Reverse Engineering of Software for Interoperability and Analysis," 47 Vanderbilt Law Review 145 (1994), reprinted in Intellectual Property Law Review (1995)
"The Continuing Evolution of Criminal Constitutional Law in State Courts," 47 Vanderbilt Law Review 795 (1994) (Special Project)
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