IPL Advisory Board

Institute for Professional Leadership

Preparing tomorrow’s leaders today

Institute for Professional Leadership

Preparing tomorrow’s leaders today

The Institute for Professional Leadership advisory board is a group of committed alumni and friends who promote excellence in leadership. Members serve as advocates and advisors in support of the college’s students, faculty, staff, and administration and collaborate in support of leadership opportunities for legal students.

Kate Atchley
Professor, Executive MBA Program
UT Haslam College of Business

Ursula Bailey
Attorney
Law Office of Ursula Bailey

Leslie L. Beale
Executive and Developmental Coach
Profusion Strategies

Stuart Brotman
Beaman Professor of Communication and Law
University of Tennessee

Lee Bussart
General Sessions and Juvenile Court Judge
Marshall County Courthouse

Keith Carver
Chancellor
University of Tennessee at Martin

Lisa Cole
Attorney
Lewis Thomason

James Cornelius
Attorney
Egerton, McAfee, Armistead & Davis, P.C.

Joan Cronan
Executive Degree Program
Brenda Lawson Athletic Center

Beth Ford
Director, Federal Defender Services
of Eastern Tennessee

Houston Gordon
Attorney
Law Office of Houston Gordon

William Harbison
Attorney
Sherrard & Roe

Rob Holland
Center for Profitable Agriculture
Middle Tennessee Experiment Station

T. Scott Jones
Attorney
Banks & Jones

George “Buck” Lewis
Shareholder, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC

Jack H. (Nick) McCall, Jr.
Attorney
Tennessee Valley Authority

Dennis McClane
Attorney
Woolf, McClane, Bright, Allen & Carpenter, PLLC

Bob Rider
Dean, UT College of Education, Health and Human Sciences

Pamela Reeves
United States District Court Judge
Eastern District of Tennessee

Stephen E. Roth
Vice President & General Counsel
Jewelry Television

Paula Schaefer
Professor of Law
UT College of Law

Clifford Shirley
Magistrate Judge, retired
Knoxville, Tennessee

Deborah Stevens
U.S. Circuit Court Judge
Knoxville, Tennessee

Kevin Thompson
Attorney
Thompson & Burton

John Weaver
Chancellor, Chancery Court, Part I
Knoxville, Tennessee

Laura S. Woods
Senior Attorney
Eastman

Cindy Wyrick
Attorney
Ogle, Gass & Richardson, P.C.