In 1993 Tanksley was the head of a Cornell research group that isolated and subsequently cloned a disease resistant gene in tomato plants.
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During his time in the Senate, Tanksley was the Senate floor leader for Governor Roy E. Barnes from 1998 to 2002, who was a member of the United States Democratic Party and was Tankley’s former law partner.
Steven D. Silverman (born 1966), lawyer, trial attorney and Managing Partner of Silverman, Thompson, Slutkin & White, LLC
He is married to former Dallas, Texas mayor Laura Miller, and he was a partner at the Dallas law firms of Baron & Budd, and Diamond & McCarthy.