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MacLean died Nov. 8 of complications of progressive supranuclear palsy. He moved to Cleburne, Texas, after earning his J.D. at Vanderbilt to join his father-in-law's law practice. He was a county attorney, a district attorney and a judge in Johnson County for 24 years before returning to private practice. He retired from practice in 2016. Read More

McFarlane is now a partner at Gerger Khalil Hennessy & McFarlane in Houston. She represented Maurice Hall, a passenger in the car when George Floyd was stopped by police in Minneapolis who was himself arrested in Houston days after Floyd's death. McFarlane was a trial attorney with the criminal division of the U.S. Department of Justice before she entered private practice in 2018. She focuses on defending clients in federal procedings. Read More

Professor Meyer’s conversation with Justice Gorsuch was sponsored by the Cecil Sims Lecture Series. Meyer clerked for Gorsuch on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. Read More

Williamson County Mayor Rogers Anderson proclaimed Thursday, Nov. 12, Bill Yost Day in honor of Yost's 40 years of service as the county's delinquent tax attorney. Yost was a partner at Petersen, Buerger and Yost in Franklin and then with Yost Robertson Nowak while he worked for the county. Read More

James P. Danly ’13 has been named chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Danly has served as one of five FERC commissioners, who are nominated by the president and confirmed by the Senate, since March 2020. Before being appointed to the FERC commission, Danly had served since 2017 as… Read More

As a Memphis attorney, Gilliland influenced political and social change for decades. He was nominaed to serve as general counsel of the U.S. Department of Agriculture by President Bill Clinton in 1993. Read More

Hagerty previously served as the U.S. ambassador to Japan. He won the Senate seat vacated by retiring Sen. Lamar Alexander. Read More

Members of the Order of the Coif are selected by faculty approval and represent the top 10 percent of their graduating class. Read More

Assistant Dean for Public Interest Spring Miller launches a new practicum through which students advocate for the employment rights of low-wage workers. Read More

Darnell served for 22 years in the Tennessee General Assembly, representing Montgomery County, and for 16 years as Tennessee secretary of state. He died Oct. 2 Read More