Middle Tennessee State University (B.S., magna cum laude, 1984)
University of Tennessee (J.D., 1987)
Admitted to Tennessee Bar, 1987;
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee, 1989;
U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, 1989.
Editor-in-Chief, Tennessee Judicial Newsletter, 1986-1987. Author: "The Rights of Nonsmokers in Tennessee," Tennessee Law Review, Vol. 54, No. 4, Summer, 1987. Member: Knoxville and Tennessee Bar Associations.
