dean

College of Law welcomes new Dean Lonnie T. Brown, Jr.
August 16, 2022 1:08 pm
The Fall 2022 semester begins with new direction from a leader who has spent years preparing to serve. It’s 4 a.m. and Lonnie T. Brown, Jr. is awake and at work. Sitting in the study of his home in Bogart, Georgia, Brown’s focus is on his laptop computer.

Lonnie T. Brown, Jr. named next College of Law dean
January 19, 2022 11:30 am
Lonnie T. Brown, Jr. has been named dean of the University of Tennessee College of Law and the Elvin E. Overton Distinguished Professor of Law. He begins July 1. Brown, the Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor and A.

Five candidates vying for College of Law Dean
November 1, 2021 12:57 pm
Five finalists have been named in the search for the next dean of the University of Tennessee College of Law. Finalists will give community presentations on campus beginning next week. All presentations will be held from Noon until 1 p.m. in Room 132 in the College of Law. Monday, Nov. 8—Melanie B.
Doug Blaze

A Return to the Role
October 1, 2021 2:00 pm
If you would have asked Doug Blaze 40 years ago what he wanted to do with his life, he would have told you he wanted nothing to do with a desk job. “Everybody I knew wanted to be a lawyer or a doctor, and that’s not what I wanted to do,” he said.

A return to the role
October 5, 2020 4:16 pm
If you would have asked Doug Blaze 40 years ago what he wanted to do with his life, he would have told you he wanted nothing to do with a desk job. “Everybody I knew wanted to be a lawyer or a doctor, and that’s not what I wanted to do,” he said.

College of Law mourns the loss of former dean
January 8, 2019 11:09 am
The University of Tennessee College of Law community is mourning the loss of Richard Wirtz, professor emeritus and former College of Law dean, who died Jan. 3 at his home in Knoxville.