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unusual facts about Tennessee Supreme Court


Robert L. Childers

The ruling was subsequently affirmed by a majority in the Tennessee Court of Appeals, but was completely reversed at the Tennessee Supreme Court.


Frank Drowota

Drowota was elected to an unexpired term on the Tennessee Supreme Court in 1980, defeating George Brown, the court's first African-American member, who had been appointed to the position by the then-Governor of Tennessee Lamar Alexander.

Grafton Green

He operated a law practice in Nashville until 1910, when he was elected to be an associate justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court.

Nashville School of Law

The school's faculty members are some prominent practicing lawyers and judges from across the state of Tennessee; formerly including the late former Tennessee Chief Justice Adolpho Birch, and now including current Justice William C. Koch, Jr. of the Tennessee Supreme Court.

William M. Barker

William Muecke Barker (born on September 13, 1941 in Chattanooga, Tennessee) was Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1995-2009.


see also

Justice Clark

Cornelia A. Clark (born 1950), Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court

Justice Harrison

Horace Harrison, an Associate Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court

Justice Jackson

Andrew Jackson (1767–1845), Associate Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court

Justice O'Brien

Charles H. O'Brien, an Associate Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court

Justice White

Hugh Lawson White, an Associate Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court

Penny J. White, an Associate Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court