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0706 Herald.Indd CHATTANOOGA ZOO ELECTION 2018 Want to see a Solutions for 10-foot lizard? opioid crisis Find Public Notices Kadal and Charlie are Candidates for statewide inside & online: getting a new home to ofi ce tell how they’d www.HamiltonCountyHerald.com facilitate breeding. address public safety. P28 P5, 12 Volume 105 | No. 27 Single Copy 50¢ CHATTANOOGA, HAMILTON COUNTY, TENNESSEE July 6 – 12, 2018 Bowe’s career a testament What was going on in Chattanooga in 1968? Friday, July 5 to strong role models James T. Coleman, a past president of the Brainerd Optimist Club, Parents, local was installed as lieutenant governor for Zone 7 of the attorneys and Tennessee District. During judges serve as his term as president in 1966-67, the Brainerd potent mentors Club won two major state awards: the Pickax Award By Linda Bryant for signing two or more members during the year and the Century Club any – if not most – Award for having a mem- modern lawyers in bership of more than 100. large cities eventually end up specializing in Saturday, July 6 M a specifi c branch of the law, Construction on a $1.5 whether it’s criminal defense, million 120-apartment immigration, estate planning, complex on the Lakeshore intellectual property or divorce. property on Chickamauga But there’s still a demand Lake will begin immedi- for attorneys who don’t limit ately, George Lambert, their practice to one particular president of Lakeshore area of the law. is type of Country Club Apartments attorney, the general practice announced. e luxury lawyer, usually works within a development, situated on range of practice areas. a 12-acre tract near Lake- Curtis L. Bowe III, who shore Lodge, will be of a heads Chattanooga’s Bowe & three-story Williamsburg Associates PPLC, has em- design. braced a generalist approach Approximately 6,200 to law because it allows him to $5 city auto stickers have address clients’ needs across a been sold at Safety Lane wide spectrum. since they became available He’s as likely to be working the last week of June, Earl on complex litigation as he is to Phillips, manager of the draft a will, lease agreement or lane, reported. City Trea- business contract. Bowe might be involved on See 50 YEARS, page 14 a Monday with a Title 9 case dealing with gender discrimi- INSIDE nation, and by midweek could ■ FINANCIAL FOCUS P13 switch to consulting with a See BOWE, page 13 ■ REAL ESTATE P15 Photograph by David Laprad When quality matters, call Chattanooga’s Let us most trusted title company. help you get Free parking On-site attorneys Locally owned Credit for prior your property Free mobile policies closings Call us today! Our smooth, speedy closing process 423-756-0911 3 LOCATIONS: is both thorough and e cient. www.milliganreynolds.com Downtown | Northgate | Ooltewah 2 | July 6 – 12, 2018 Hamilton County Herald www.hamiltoncountyherald.com News and notes from the Chattanooga Bar Association Bar Association Chattanooga Bar Foundation names new fellows By David Laprad e Chattanooga Bar Foundation Fellows welcomed three new mem- bers during the 2018 Fellows Lun- cheon held at e Walden Club on June 27. Honored were attorneys Lee Ann Adams, Tonya Cammon and Russell “Rusty” Gray. Adams is a member and the sec- retary of Gearhiser, Peters, Elliott & Cannon. During her 21 years with the firm, she has focused her practice on estate planning and estate adminis- tration. Adams graduated magna cum laude from the University of Ten- nessee at Chattanooga in 1994 with a degree in English and magna cum laude from the University of Tennes- Lee Ann Adams Tonya Cammon Rusty Gray see College of Law in 1997. She serves as the chair of the UTC on the UTC Planned Giving Advisory professor for the UTC College of and civic organizations including Alumni Association Women’s Coun- Council. Business and makes numerous pre- the Estate Planning Council, Chatta- cil. She began a three-year term on Adams says she has a passion for sentations each year on estate and tax nooga Tax Practitioners (where she the UT Alumni Association board of educating the public about legal planning issues. See FELLOWS, page 3 governors in June. Adams also serves issues. She has served as an adjunct She is a member of various legal Faith graduates from Leadership Law, honored with President’s award Gearhiser, Peters, Elliott and Can- group’s clinics and events. non attorney Justin Faith was one of Faith currently serves on the TBA 28 attorneys from across the state to YLD’s executive committee as trea- graduate from the Tennessee Bar As- surer and liaison to the public service CHATTANOOGA BAR ASSOCIATION CHATTANOOGA sociation’s Leadership Law program committee. during the TBA’s annual convention Faith practices primarily in the in Memphis in June. areas of civil business litigation and e group of attorneys spent the estate administration. last six months learning about lead- He has experience representing ership in the legal profession, issues both businesses and individuals in in the courts, policymaking in state commercial litigation and business government and the importance of disputes, construction matters, community service. employment law, municipality issues, Faith was also selected as the 2018 trust and estate litigation, conser- recipient of the President’s Special vatorships and various other legal Recognition Award for his significant matters in state and federal court. efforts furthering the initiatives of the Faith earned his J.D. from the Uni- TBA’s Young Lawyers Division this versity of Tennessee College of Law past year, including expanding the and his undergraduate degree from YLD’s social media presence, pre- the University of Louisville. paring the YLD’s monthly attorney Source: Gearhiser, Peters, Elliott & Cannon spotlight features and promoting the Photograph by David Laprad Executive Committee Board of Governors Ex-Officio Member Lee Ann Adams Marc Harwell The Honorable J. B. PRESIDENT Sheri Fox Bennett Robin L. Miller George G. Hixson JUDICIAL REPRESENTATIVE TREASURER Steven M. Jacoway Thomas M. Horne PRESIDENT-ELECT William G. Colvin Jeffrey W. Maddux John C. Harrison PAST PRESIDENT Jimmy Rodgers SECRETARY Lynda Minks Hood Drew H. Reynolds, 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 6 – 12, 2018 | 3 n VIEW FROM CAPITOL HILL Collecting online sales taxes no cure-all for state Tennessee’s political officials uary 2017 requiring retailers Republican from the Chatta- be this huge amount of money are lauding the U.S. Supreme without a physical presence in nooga area. and it’s really not? Or is it really Court’s decision enabling Tennessee and with sales of He acknowledges that figure a huge amount of money and states to effectively collect sales more than $500,000 to register could go higher, and he uses may allow us to spread it out taxes from out-of-state online here and start collecting sales the analogy of cell phones and amongst more people.” retailers. taxes. e department made 911 systems to make the point. Factoring the local split But don’t expect the result collections optional because of After years of building 911 of South Dakota v. Wayfair to a court challenge. systems around land lines, gov- Watson and Rep. Charles be a watershed moment for the Sam Stockard Even so, revenuers estimated ernments had to revamp when Sargent, chairman of the House Finance, Ways and state budget. If you’re looking [email protected] Tennessee would collect only those became obsolete and cell Means Committee, are on for a windfall to bolster edu- an additional $200 million a phones started taking over, he the leading edge of discus- cation or house the homeless, allow the new technology to year when the rule took effect notes. sion about recalculating the close your eyes and dream on, thrive tax-free. Today, internet fully. To be sure, that amount Watson predicts the state percentage of share sales tax because this likely isn’t about commerce is ubiquitous with of money is not insignificant. could hold on to the online tax money city and county gov- mo’ money, mo’ money. many families purchasing large Yet, considering Tennessee has collections instead of spending ernments receive. e decision overturns a majorities of their goods and a $37 billion budget, it’s not the money. Otherwise, it would Sargent, a Franklin Republi- 1992 Quill decision restricting services online,” McNally says. going to make or break us. be hard to pull back, he says, can who is leaving the Legisla- tax collections on retailers e Oak Ridge Republican – us, legislative leaders such until state leaders get a better ture and giving up a good deal from other states. At that who could have used the words as Sen. Bo Watson say it’s too idea of how much money is of influence over money mat- point, internet sales were only widespread or commonplace so early to tell how the numbers coming in and how to manage ters, points toward Williamson a spark on the horizon that the ignorant masses wouldn’t will shake out in terms of set- it. County as a good example of slowly started burning into the have to consult a dictionary – ting a state budget. e state base is 7 percent, the imbalance in state-shared bottom line of stores across the notes the outcome should give Watson, chairman of the with 1 percent going into the distribution. country. stores “with strong roots” a Senate Finance, Ways and state coffers and 6 percent e state sends 97 percent “is decision will help better chance to prosper equal Means Committee, considers shared with cities and coun- - of state-shared dollars to cities, ensure fairness for Tennessee the court’s decision a “great ties.
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