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JENKINS PERSPECTIVE LEGAL COMMUNITY UTC, new coach Chattanooga Bar get early jump taps 3 Fellows Find Public Notices Early opener helps soothe Nora McCarthy, Bobby inside & online: Tom Arth’s itch to get on Dann, Josh Powers www.HamiltonCountyHerald.com the practice fi eld. honored by their peers. P14 P2 Volume 104 | No. 29 Single Copy 50¢ CHATTANOOGA, HAMILTON COUNTY, TENNESSEE July 21 – 27, 2017 What was going on in Chattanooga in 1967? Saturday, July 22 Th e United Fund Campaign for the Greater Chattanooga area to be conducted this fall has set a goal of $1,720,317, it was announced Friday by Joe H. Davenport, Jr., UF pres- ident. A record amount, this compares with a goal of $1,537,237 for last fall’s campaign. Mr. Fred Mulkey, Jr., has been promoted to super- visor of the stores of M&J Supermarkets, Inc., W.E. Ragland III, president of M&J, announced. Mulkey has been with M&J on a full-time basis for the past nine years and for some six years prior to that on a part-time basis. Sunday, July 23 Photograph by Alex McMahan Miss Linda Sue Work- David Morris, owner of Habitat International, depends heavily on employees with cognitive disabilities at his factory, which makes artificial golf practice surfaces. man, Miss University of Tennessee Martin branch, was selected Miss Tennes- see of 1967 Saturday night during the annual pageant Their ‘biggest disability ... is us’ want to be on their iPhones Th irty-six years after in Jackson. Morris dedicated to providing jobs [at work]. Th ey don’t care. co-founding the company, Bert H. Brown, president But these people begged to be which at one time made arti- of Bert Brown Ford, Inc., for mentally, physically challenged team members,” says Habitat fi cial grass rugs and mats for and president of the Ross- owner and CEO David Morris, big-box retailers such as Lowe’s ville Development Co., will By Nancy Henderson challenges are making curved nodding toward the three men and Th e Home Depot, with his address the Chattanooga “fl oating island” greens for at the boxing station – a former late father Saul, Morris is now Rotary Club Th ursday noon t the Habitat Inter- swimming pools. Outside, a contract laborer with Goodwill a national role model for hiring in Hotel Patten on “RDC: national factory on parade of horses, deer and and two Orange Grove Center the people no one else will. He Amnicola Highway, a See 50 YEARS, page 23 other thin, oversized steel residents who lost their “day has spoken at corporate events trio of employees with A sculptures guards the entrance jobs” when the facility’s recy- across the country (he won’t cognitive disabilities are rolling to the plant, while a whimsical cling center shut down. accept speaking fees, claiming INSIDE up rectangular artifi cial-grass character in a wheelchair rolls “Th is is as good a crew as I’ve that to do so would exploit his golf putting greens and placing ■ FINANCIAL FOCUS P10 toward the road. ever had. Th e biggest disability workers), helped major com- them in boxes for shipping. “Unfortunately, a lot of they have is us. Th eir ‘I can’ far ■ REAL ESTATE P13 Up ahead, more employees [able-bodied] people today exceeds their IQ.’” with intellectual and physical See MORRIS, page 11 Representing Tennessee and Georgia clients since 1989 CIVIL WILLS & PERSONAL BUSINESS LITIGATION ESTATES INJURY LAW 724 Cherry St. Chattanooga, TN 37402 423-265-5100 www.epsteinlawfi rm.net 2 | July 21 – 27, 2017 Hamilton County Herald www.hamiltoncountyherald.com News and notes from the Chattanooga Bar Association Bar Association Introducing the Fellows Class of 2017 By Lynda Hood Being a Fellow of the Chattanoo- ga Bar Foundation is an honor. To be invited by one’s peers to become a Fellow, an attorney must have an outstanding record of service to both the Chattanooga Bar Association and the broader community. Therefore, it is recognition of one’s commitment to both. Being a Fellow of the CFB is also more than an honor – it is a respon- sibility. As a group, the Fellows work to improve the study of law and the administration of justice, elevate the ethical standards of the bench and bar, improve relations between the members of the legal profession and the public, help lawyers who are ill, award scholarships and provide funds for charitable causes. Therefore, it is no small honor or Photograph by Lynda Hood Photograph by Lynda Hood responsibility to be a Fellow. Bobby Dann, left, pictured with Jay Morgan, chair of the Fellows. Nora McCarthy, right, with Jay Morgan. Yet each year, when the CBF invites a select few Chattanooga-area attorneys to join the ranks of the local commercial finance and sustainability than 20 years, serving in various roles McCarthy graduated from the Fellows, they answer the call. Joining practice groups and as department for Troop 191 at Lookout Moun- University of Cincinnati College of means making a financial donation to chair for the commercial department. tain Presbyterian Church, including Law, where she served as editor of the the organization as well as taking it Dann has represented lenders, bor- scoutmaster and committee chair. student newspaper, Res Judicata, in upon one’s self to attend to the mat- rowers, developers and investors in a All three of his sons achieved Eagle 1981. She then began practice with ters with which the Fellows concern multitude of commercial real estate Scout. the firm of Luther, Anderson, Cleary themselves. and business transactions. Dann and his wife, Anne, are the & Ruth, where she was a partner from This year’s selectees are Bobby In addition, he has served on the proud parents of one daughter (a 1985 to 1995. Dann of Miller & Martin, Nora Tennessee Bar Association’s CLE graduate of GPS and the US Naval In 1987, McCarthy founded, and McCarthy of McCarthy Murphy & committee and presented several CLE Academy, who just left active service along with Ardena Garth co-chaired, Preslar and Josh Powers of Baker Do- courses, including an online interac- after nine years as a Navy helicopter the Hamilton County Regional Mock nelson. These Fellows were inducted tive session for basic real estate issues pilot) and three sons (all graduates of Trial in the High Schools competi- on June 28 during the annual Fellows in Tennessee. McCallie School, and one of which tion. luncheon, held at the Mountain City Dann is a member of The Church also graduated from the US Naval She later served as coach to various CHATTANOOGA BAR ASSOCIATION CHATTANOOGA Club. Here is a brief biography of of the Good Shepherd on Lookout Academy and is currently a Navy test mock trial teams including Red Bank each one: Mountain. He has also been a mem- pilot for the F-18 Super Hornet). High School, Central High School Bobby Dann ber of the Downtown Kiwanis Club, Professional memberships include and the Home School teams. where he has served on the board and the Chattanooga and American Bar In 1982, McCarthy earned her pri- Bobby Dann earned a degree in as a past president, for over 20 years. Associations. vate pilot license. She no longer flies history from Georgia Southern Uni- Through Kiwanis, Dann has led the Nora McCarthy but recalls those days of freedom with versity and his Juris Doctor degree construction and refurbishment of great fondness. from Wake Forest. He spent his first playgrounds at Rivermont Elemen- McCarthy graduated with degree McCarthy was a charter member 15 years of law practice as in-house tary School, Orange Grove Center in political science from the Univer- of Tennessee Lawyer’s Association investment counsel for the Integon and East Lake Elementary School and sity of Tennessee at Chattanooga in for Women and served as its presi- group of insurance companies in this year’s effort to build a one-mile 1978. dent in 1993-94. Winston-Salem, North Carolina. fitness trail at Howard School. She served as business manager In 1995, McCarthy and Richard He moved to Chattanooga in 1996, Dann has served on the board and and editor of The University Echo, Ruth, Jr., formed the law firm of Ruth where he established a small title as a past president of the Chattanoo- the weekly student newspaper, and & McCarthy, P.C. to focus on first insurance agency and then joined ga Area Swim League and is a current on the university’s student council. party insurance fraud cases as well Miller & Martin in 1998. member of the board of the Lookout In 1978, McCarthy was awarded as insurance defense cases. This firm At Miller & Martin, Dann has Mountain Conservancy. a Chapin-Thomas full scholarship later was known as Ruth, McCarthy served at different times as prac- Dann also has been an active adult funded by the Benwood Foundation & Coleman, P.C. and then Ruth, Mc- tice group leader for the real estate, volunteer for Boy Scouts for more to the University of Cincinnati School of Law. See FELLOWS, page 3 Executive Committee John C. Harrison Board of Governors Ex-Officio Member TREASURER William G. Colvin Barret S. Albritton The Honorable Pamela PRESIDENT Honorable Christie M. Sheri Fox Fleenor Sell Marc Harwell JUDICIAL REPRESENTATIVE Lee Davis PAST PRESIDENT PRESIDENT-ELECT George G. Hixson Jeffrey W. Maddux Steven M. Jacoway Jimmy Rodgers SECRETARY Linda Minks Hood Brittany T. Faith EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR YLD REPRESENTATIVE Chattanooga Bar Association | The Pioneer Building | Suite 420 | 801 Broad Street | Chattanooga, TN 37402 | 423-756-3222 | Fax: 423-265-6602 |www.chattanoogabar.org www.hamiltoncountyherald.com Hamilton County Herald July 21 – 27, 2017 | 3 n ACROSS THE DIRECTOR’S DESK Raising the Bar for area’s legal community Of all the reasons to be a member their chosen area of practice.