FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – The Knoxville Bar Foundation will recognize thirteen esteemed members of Knoxville’s legal community at their Annual Dinner on Tuesday, May 1, 2018. 

Each year the Foundation inducts a new Fellows Class which is less than one percent of the active bar association.  The Fellows represent quality men and women practitioners in our community who have distinguished themselves in the practice of law and service.

The Foundation's board of directors reviews numerous nominations, and determines the inductees who have demonstrated superior legal skills and high ethical standards and service to the community. 

Jamie Ballinger-Holden, Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz

Brooklyn Sawyers Belk, U.S. Attorney’s Office

Christopher A. Hall, Hodges, Doughty & Carson, PLLC

Mark P. Jendrek, Mark Jendrek, P.C.

John M. Lawhorn, Frantz, McConnell & Seymour, LLP

Gregory C. Logue, Woolf, McClane, Bright, Allen & Carpenter, PLLC

Matthew R. Lyon, Lincoln Memorial University Duncan School of Law

Hon. Thomas W. Phillips, U.S. District Court

Adam M. Priest, Pryor, Priest, Harber, Floyd & Coffey

Ellen J. Radice, U.T. College of Law

Catherine E. Shuck, East Tennessee Children’s Hospital

Hon. Thomas A. Varlan, U.S. District Court

John B. Waters, III, Long, Ragsdale & Waters, PC

The Knoxville Bar Foundation is a not for profit foundation established to improve public awareness of the legal system in Knoxville, the administration of justice and the delivery of legal services through the distribution of its funds.