William C. Koch Jr.

Last updated
William C. Koch Jr.
BornSeptember 12, 1947
Alma materTrinity College
OccupationDean Nashville School of Law
Known forTennessee Supreme Court

William C. Koch Jr. (born September 12, 1947) is a former justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court. Prior to his appointment to the court in 2007, he served 23 years on the Tennessee Court of Appeals. [1] He retired from the court on July 15, 2014, and accepted the position of dean at Nashville School of Law. [2] [3]

Contents

Career

Koch studied at Trinity College in Connecticut. He obtained his law degree at Vanderbilt University and his LL.M from the University of Virginia School of Law. He was appointed to the Tennessee Supreme Court in 2007. He teaches at the Nashville School of Law. [4]

Awards

Related Research Articles

Horace Harmon Lurton US Supreme Court justice from 1910 to 1914

Horace Harmon Lurton was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and previously was a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and of the United States Circuit Courts for the Sixth Circuit.

Vanderbilt University Law School

Vanderbilt University Law School is a graduate school of Vanderbilt University. Established in 1874, it is one of the oldest law schools in the southern United States. Vanderbilt Law School has consistently ranked among the top 20 law schools in the nation. It is ranked 12th on Above the Law's 2018 Top Law School Rankings and 16th in the 2022 edition of U.S. News & World Report.

Gilbert S. Merritt Jr. American judge

Gilbert Stroud Merritt Jr. was an American lawyer and jurist. He served as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit from 1977 to 2022.

Nashville School of Law American law school

Nashville School of Law, is a private law school founded in 1911. The school's students attend classes at night on a part-time basis.

A. A. Birch Jr. American judge

Adolpho A. Birch Jr. was an American lawyer and judge who was the first African American to serve as Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court.

Frank Drowota American judge

Frank F. Drowota III was a former chief justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court.

Cornelia Clark American judge

Cornelia Anne Clark was an American attorney and jurist who served as a justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court from 2005 until her death in 2021.

Robert Elbert Cooper Jr. is an American lawyer who served as Attorney General of the state of Tennessee. A Democrat, Cooper Jr. was appointed by the state supreme court to that position and was sworn in as the 26th Attorney General and Reporter of Tennessee by Tennessee Supreme Court Chief Justice William M. Barker, taking office on November 1, 2006. The Court declined to reappoint him on September 15, 2014, naming Herbert Slatery as his successor. His tenure ended on October 1, 2014.

Karl Dean American politician

Karl Foster Dean is an American politician who served as the 68th Mayor of Nashville, Tennessee from 2007 to 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as Nashville's Director of Law under Mayor Bill Purcell from 1999 to 2007. In 1990, 1994 and 1998, he was elected the city's public defender. Dean, an attorney by occupation, is currently an Adjunct Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University Law School.

William & Mary Law School

The William & Mary Law School is the professional graduate law school of the College of William & Mary. Located in Williamsburg, Virginia, the school is the oldest extant law school in the United States, having been founded in 1779 at the urging of alumnus Thomas Jefferson. It has an enrollment of 645 full-time students seeking a Juris Doctor (J.D.) or an Master of Laws (LL.M.) in the American Legal System, a two or three semester program for lawyers trained outside the United States.

Martha Craig "Cissy" Daughtrey is a Senior United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

William Frierson Cooper was a lawyer, planter and politician. He was nominated to the Supreme Court of the Confederate States of America by President Jefferson Davis, but the court never sat because of the American Civil War. After the war, he served as the Dean of the Vanderbilt University Law School from 1874 to 1875. He was a judge of the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1878 to 1886.

Thomas H. Malone

Thomas H. Malone (1834-1906) was an American Confederate veteran, judge, businessman and academic administrator. He served as the President of the Nashville Gas Company from 1893 to 1906. He served as the second Dean of the Vanderbilt University Law School from 1875 to 1904.

Dick Latta Lansden was a justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court from 1910 to 1923. He served as chief justice from 1918 to 1923.

John W. Judd American judge

John Waltus Judd was a Justice of the Supreme Court of the Utah Territory from 1888 to 1889.

Edward T. Seay was an American lawyer and a politician. He served as the speaker of the Tennessee Senate from 1901 to 1903. He represented the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, and he was the acting dean of the Vanderbilt University Law School from 1929 to 1930.

Rebecca Latham Brown is an American law professor who is The Rader Family Trustee Chair in Law specializing in Constitutional law at USC Gould School of Law.

References

  1. "Biography" . Retrieved September 4, 2013.
  2. "Nashville School of Law names new dean – Nashville Business Journal". Nashville Business Journal. Retrieved 2016-03-07.
  3. "The Dean | Nashville School of Law". www.nashvilleschooloflaw.net. Retrieved 2018-01-11.
  4. 1 2 3 "Tennessee Supreme Court Justice William C. Koch Jr. '72 announces retirement and appointment as dean of Nashville School of Law". Vanderbilt University. Retrieved 2018-01-11.