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3728 Keowee Avenue, Apt. S Department of Political Science Knoxville, Tennessee 37919 1013A Mcclung Tower (865) 523-6596 Knoxville, Tennessee 37996 (865) 974-2167 THEODORE BROWN, JR. 3728 Keowee Avenue, Apt. S Department of Political Science Knoxville, Tennessee 37919 1013A McClung Tower (865) 523-6596 Knoxville, Tennessee 37996 (865) 974-2167 Date of Birth: June 7, 1949 Marital Status: Single Bar Admissions: Georgia and Tennessee LEGAL EDUCATION Vanderbilt University School of Law Nashville, Tennessee J.D., 1978; second quartile in class of 152; Articles Editor, Vanderbilt Law Review, 1977 1978; recipient, Vanderbilt Law Review Medal, 1978; legal writing and research assistant, Professor Igor I. Kavass, Vanderbilt University School of Law, 1976 1977 UNDERGRADUATE EDUCATION University of Tennessee Knoxville, Tennessee B.S. summa cum laude (History), 1971; Phi Beta Kappa, 1970; Phi Kappa Phi, 1969; Phi Eta Sigma, 1968; Student Government Association, 1970 1971; State President, College Young Democrats of Tennessee, 1968 1969; Special Collections Assistant, Estes Kefauver Collection, University of Tennessee Library, 1967 1971 LEGAL EMPLOYMENT McKenna, Long & Aldridge LLP Atlanta, Georgia Of Counsel, April 1998 June 2006: practice areas included financial restructuring, bankruptcy, real estate financing, and litigation Reece & Associates Atlanta, Georgia Attorney at law, December 1993 April 1998: practice areas included governmental relations, corporate law, and litigation Theodore Brown, Jr. Page Two Kilpatrick & Cody Atlanta, Georgia Attorney at law, August 1981 November 1993: practice areas included creditors’ rights, commercial finance, litigation in the context of bankruptcy and reorganization proceedings, and public finance United States Bankruptcy Court Nashville, Tennessee Law Clerk to the Honorable Russell H. Hippe, Jr., United States Bankruptcy Judge, Middle District of Tennessee, 1979 1981 NON-LEGAL EMPLOYMENT The University of Tennessee Knoxville, Tennessee Lecturer in Constitutional Law, Judicial Process, and Law in American Society, Department of Political Science, 2006–present Adjunct Professor of Law in American Legal History, College of Law, 2006 present The Papers of Andrew Jackson Hermitage, Tennessee Washington, D.C. Co-Editor with Professor James W. Ely, Jr., Legal Papers of Andrew Jackson, 1979 1987: duties included collection, selection, and annotation of cases that Jackson handled as a practicing lawyer and heard as a superior court judge; Associate Editor, Legal Papers of Andrew Jackson, 1977 1979; Research Assistant, Andrew Jackson Papers Project, 1974 1977: duties included collection of and research relating to Jackson’s non-legal, military, and presidential papers at the National Archives, Washington, D.C. Attorney General David M. Pack Nashville, Tennessee Staff Assistant, 1974: duties included research and preparation of memoranda and speeches during gubernatorial campaign of former Attorney General of Tennessee U.S. Senator Albert Gore, Sr. Washington, D.C. Nashville, Tennessee Staff Member, 1969–1970: duties included research and preparation of memoranda, drafting legislation, and constituent case work for Senator Gore during 91st Congress and Senator Gore’s re-election campaign, United States Senate, 1970 Theodore Brown, Jr. Page Three Estes Kefauver Collection Knoxville, Tennessee Special Collections Assistant, 1967 1971: duties included processing, organizing, and cataloguing Senator Kefauver’s personal and legislative papers, 1939 1963, papers relating to Senator Kefauver’s presidential campaigns in 1952 and 1956, and Senator Kefauver’s vice- presidential candidacy in 1956 PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS Author, book review of Matthew Warshauer, Andrew Jackson and the Politics of Martial Law: Nationalism, Civil Liberties, and Partisanship (University of Tennessee Press 2006), in The Tennessee Historical Quarterly (Winter 2008), pp. 346–362 Author, biographical profile of Tennessee Supreme Court Justice and U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Catron in Charles Reagan Wilson, ed., The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Law & Politics (University of North Carolina Press, 2008) Author, “State v. Foreman, the Marshall Court, and the Politics of Cherokee Removal,” The Tennessee Supreme Court Historical Society’s Chronicle (Fall 2003) Author, “The Tennessee Supreme Court’s Decision in State v. Foreman (1835),” paper delivered before the McMinn County Historical Society (October 27, 2002) Author, “The Formative Period in the History of the Supreme Court of Tennessee, 1796– 1835,” in James W. Ely, Jr., ed., A History of the Tennessee Supreme Court (University of Tennessee Press, 2002) Co-Editor with Professor James W. Ely, Jr. (Vanderbilt University School of Law), Legal Papers of Andrew Jackson (University of Tennessee Press, 1987) Author, biographical profiles of U.S. Senator Estes Kefauver (D. Tenn.), early Tennessee jurists John Overton and John McNairy, and Tennessee Supreme Court Justice William J. Harbison in the Tennessee Historical Society’s The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture (Tennessee Historical Society / Rutledge Hill Press, 1998) Author, “Arthur S. Link: A Tribute,” 26:2 Annotation: The Newsletter of the National Historical Publications and Records Commission 18 (June 1998) Lecture, “Estes Kefauver and the Art of Political Leadership,” Eighth Annual Estes Kefauver Scholars Lecture, Hiwassee College, Madisonville, Tennessee, February 16, 1995 Co-Author with Robert B. Allen, “Kefauver, A Legend Remembered,” The Chattanooga Times, August 11, 1993 Theodore Brown, Jr. Page Four Co-Author with Robert B. Allen, “Remembering Estes Kefauver,” The Progressive Populist (October 1996) Co-Author with Dennis S. Meir, “Representing Creditors’ Committees under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code,” 56 American Bankruptcy Law Journal 217 (1982) Author, “The Tennessee County Courts Under the North Carolina and Territorial Governments: The Davidson County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, 1783 1796, as a Case Study,” 32 Vanderbilt Law Review 349 (1979) Student Author, “Case Comment: Criminal Procedure—Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure—Rule 11 Statements Concerning Voluntariness of Guilty Plea Not Conclusive Against Contradictory Petition for Post-Conviction Relief Under 28 U.S.C. § 2255,” 29 Vanderbilt Law Review 1449 (1976) Author, “The Papers of Andrew Jackson: Progress and Procedures in the Enterprise at the Hermitage,” paper delivered before the Bradley County Chapter (October 24, 1975) of the East Tennessee Historical Society Paper, “A Land Ownership Survey of Lot 98, or the Old Hospital Lot, ca. 1715 1861,” prepared for Hampton [Virginia] Association for the Arts and Humanities, August 1973 REPRESENTATIVE EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES Member, Board of Trustees, Georgia Legal History Foundation, 1988 1992 Member, Board of Editors, Georgia Legal History Foundation’s Journal of Southern Legal History (1989 1992) Chairman, Georgia Legal History Foundation’s First Annual Woodrow Wilson Dinner, 1988 Chairman, Georgia Legal History Foundation’s Second Annual Woodrow Wilson Dinner, 1989 Member, Georgia Steering Committee, Albert Gore, Jr. for President, 1988 Representative professional organizations: State Bar of Georgia; State Bar of Tennessee; Organization of American Historians, Southern Historical Association (Life Member); American Society for Legal History; Society for Historians of the Early American Republic; Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations .
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