Barrett Program News And Events

Lowery will work at the Tennessee Innocence Project, where she will help clients navigate re-entry. Read More

Kaylee Brilhart was recognized for logging the highest number of pro bono hours—1,668—as a VLS student. Six members of the Class of 2023 completed the Pro Bono Pledge in both 2022 and 2023. Read More

Cruz brings significant public interest law experience from Nashville Public Defender’s Office. Read More

Plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges, discussed coming to terms with his gay identity, fighting for his marriage to be recognized nationwide Read More

Student teams worked on projects to provide end-of-life resources for low-income clients, support indigent criminal defense, and offer civil legal services to formerly incarcerated women Read More

Riggs spoke about democracy and voting rights in the event hosted by the George Barrett Social Justice Program Read More

Wiltshire headed the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee and the Cumberlands for 37 years before his retirement in 2007. Read More

Canellos is a managing editor at Politico and the author of “The Great Dissenter: The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America’s Judicial Hero.” Read More

Ashley Fox ’24, Adom Abatkun ’25 and Sophia Howard ’25 were selected for the first and second cohorts of a groundbreaking scholarship program created “to endow the South with the next generation of civil rights lawyers.” The program was developed by the Legal Defense Fund and named for former Supreme Court Justice and LDF founder Thurgood Marshall and pioneering civil rights litigator and former LDF attorney Constance Baker Motley. Read More

This is the inaugural year of the AALS Pro Bono Honor Roll. Vanderbilt honorees Brooks and Parr-Carranza are among 140 students, faculty and staffers representing 58 law schools to receive this recognition. Read More