Legal History Project
The Foundation’s Legal History Project preserves the record of the legal profession in Tennessee by conducting individual, video interviews of senior attorneys and retired members of the Supreme Court about their lives and experiences in the law, as well as the social and political issues of their day. The Project has also created numerous 30-minute entertainment video collages that contain the “best of” moments from each interviewee on selected topics. The collages are professionally produced, complete with titles and music.
The interviews and collages may be viewed on the internet and through this site:
• Video collages are available immediately below.
• Individual interviewees are listed alphabetically, below the group of collages.
The individual interviews and collages are also available for loan or purchase. Please contact us for details.
Additional interviews of Tennessee lawyers and judges are available on the websites of the Knoxville Bar Association and the Nashville Bar Association.
Explore Collages
Tennessee Legal Traditions 2020 – Part II
26 minutes
Includes:
Alexander, Bryant, Cooley, Gordon, Holder, McBride, McCoy, Oakley, Robinson, Stansberry, Trauger
Tennessee Legal Traditions: Charter Fellows
28 minutes
Includes: Arnett, Bahner, Bearman, Bogatin, Branstetter, Chambliss, Draper, Gilbert, Gilreath, Harvill, Keaton, Marston, McMurray, Reid, Rucker, Sims, Tate, Tomlin, Winchester
Tennessee Legal Traditions 2020
30 minutes
Includes: Alexander, Bryant, Cooley, Gordon, Holder, McBride, McCoy, Oakley, Robinson, Stansberry, Trauger
Tennessee Legal Traditions 2017
34 minutes
Includes: Acree, Jr., Beasley, Bracy, Fraley, Jr., Gilreath, Koch, Jr., Shine, Summers, Wade
Tennessee Legal Traditions 2015 Part II
31 minutes
Includes: Daniel, Emison, Jr., Gilliland, Goddard, Gray, Harvey, Hinds, Jack, Kline, Lawwell
Tennessee Legal Traditions 2015
33 minutes
Includes: Daniel, Emison, Jr., Gilliland, Goddard, Gray, Harvey, Hinds, Jack, Kline, Lawwell
Tennessee Legal Traditions 2013
33 minutes
Includes: Barker, Barry, Cody, Franks, Gilbert, Higgins, Jenkins, Merritt, Reingold, White
Tennessee Legal Traditions 2011
32 minutes
Includes: Bahner, Barrett, Bearman, Brown, Daughtrey, Duncan, Guinn, Ladd, McMurray, Wiseman
Tennessee Legal Traditions 2009
31 minutes
Includes: Anderson, Bell, Cain, Gilbert Campbell, Robert Campbell, Coleman, Cooper, Crump, Davis, Fisher, Reid, Winchester
Tennessee Legal Traditions 2007
32 minutes
Includes Allen, Baker, Bass, Birch, Crawford, Drowota, Gamble, Glankler, Horde, Jarvis, Paine, Stegall, Thomas
Tennessee Legal Traditions 2005
35 minutes
Includes: Bernstein, Colley, Flippin, Ingram, Inman, Kilcrease, Prewitt, Sims, Smartt, Warfield
Tennessee Legal Traditions 2003
31 minutes
Includes: Donelson, Emison, Horton, Neal, Paty, Peeler, Sanford, Swafford, Tomlin, West
Tennessee Legal Traditions 2001
26 minutes
Includes: Arnett, Branstetter, Brown, Campbell, Chandler, Keaton, Rainwater, Rucker, Summers, Trabue
Tennessee Legal Traditions 1999
27 minutes
Includes: Chambliss, Harvill, Hooks, Tate, Underwood
Available Videos
William B Acree, Jr.
Union City
Interviewed by:
Judges Joe G. Riley and J Steven Stafford
Senator Lamar Alexander
Maryville
Interviewed by:
Judge Robert L. Echols
Newton P. Allen
Memphis
Interviewed by:
George T. Lewis III
Justice E. Riley Anderson
Oak Ridge
Interviewed by:
Dalton T. Townsend
Foster D. Arnett
Knoxville
Interviewed by:
Howard H. Vogel
T. Maxfield Bahner
Chattanooga
Interviewed by:
Justice William M. Barker
Senator Howard H. Baker, Jr.
Huntsville
Interviewed by:
Robert F. Worthington, Jr.
Justice William M. Barker
Chattanooga
Interviewed by:
T. Maxfield Bahner
George E. Barrett
Nashville
Interviewed by:
Charles W. Bone
William L. (Dick) Barry
Lexington
Interviewed by:
Barri E. Bernstein
James O. Bass, Sr.
Nashville
Interviewed by:
H. Lee Barfield II
Leo Bearman, Jr.
Memphis
Interviewed by:
Jill M. Steinberg
Thomas W. Beasley
Burns
Interviewed by:
Charles W. Bone
Judge Henry Denmark Bell
Franklin
Interviewed by:
Judge Donald P. Harris
Bernard E. Bernstein
Knoxville
Interviewed by:
Donald F. Paine
Justice Adolpho A. Birch, Jr.
Nashville
Interviewed by:
Judge Martha Craig Daughtrey
Charles W. Bone
Nashville
Interviewed by:
J. Houston Gordon
Lance B. Bracy
Joelton
Interviewed by:
Laura L. Chastain
Cecil D. Branstetter
Nashville
Interviewed by:
William R. Willis, Jr.
Judge Bailey Brown
Memphis
Interviewed by:
William H. Haltom
Judge George H. Brown, Jr.
Memphis
Interviewed by:
William H. Haltom
Judge Edward G. Bryant
Jackson
Interviewed by:
W. Lewis Jenkins
Judge William B. Cain
Columbia
Interviewed by:
Paul B. Plant
Robert R. Campbell
Knoxville
Interviewed by:
Dalton L. Townsend
Gilbert R. Campbell, Jr.
Nashville
Interviewed by:
Judge J. Daniel Breen
Paul Campbell, Jr.
Chattanooga
Interviewed by:
Howard H Vogel
Jac Chambliss
Chattanooga
Interviewed by:
Paul Campbell III
Judge Wyeth Chandler
Memphis
Interviewed by:
Albert C. Harvey
W. J. Michael Cody
Memphis
Interviewed by:
William H. Haltom, Jr.
Nathaniel R. (Nat) Coleman, Jr.
Greeneville
Interviewed by:
Jeffrey M. Ward
Jerry C. Colley
Columbia
Interviewed by:
Paul B. Plant
Judge Curtis L. Collier
Chattanooga
Interviewed by:
Sam D. Elliott
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Justice Robert E. Cooper
Chattanooga
Interviewed by:
Justice William M. Barker
J. Polk Cooley
Rockwood
Interviewed by:
Justice Sharon G. Lee
Judge W. Frank Crawford
Memphis
Interviewed by:
Floyd S. Flippin
Charles M. Crump
Memphis
Interviewed by:
Thomas R. Buckner
Creed A. Daniel
Rutledge
Interviewed by:
Jacqueline B. Dixon
Judge Martha Craig Daughtrey
Nashville
Interviewed by:
Justice Cornelia A. Clark
Maclin P. Davis, Jr.
Nashville
Interviewed by:
Lew Corner
Lewis R. Donelson, III
Memphis
Interviewed by:
William H. Haltom
Justice Frank F. Drowota III
Nashville
Interviewed by:
George T. Lewis III
Judge Joe D. Duncan
Knoxville
Interviewed by:
W. Dale Amburn
T. James Emison, Jr.
Alamo
Interviewed by:
J. Houston Gordon
Theophilus J. Emison
Alamo
Interviewed by:
T. James Emison, Jr.
Douglas M. Fisher
Nashville
Interviewed by:
Judge Frank G. Clement, Jr.
W. Jerry Flippin
Milan
Interviewed by:
Judge James B. Webb
Raymond W. Fraley, Jr.
Fayetteville
Interviewed by:
John R. Bobo
Judge Herschel P. Franks
Chattanooga
Interviewed by:
Justice William M. Barker
William T. Gamble
Kingsport
Interviewed by:
D. Bruce Shine
Judge Julia Smith Gibbons
Memphis
Interviewed by:
Chief Justice Roger A. Page
Harris A. Gilbert
Nashville
Interviewed by:
Charles W. Bone
James S. Gilliland
Memphis
Interviewed by:
William H. Haltom, Jr.
Sidney W. Gilreath
Knoxville
Interviewed by:
Charles W. Swanson
Frank J. Glankler, Jr.
Memphis
Interviewed by:
Lee J. Chase III
A. B. Goddard
Maryville
Interviewed by:
Carl P. McDonald
Chancellor Thomas E. Gray
Gallatin
Interviewed by:
Chancellor Carol L. McCoy
Judge Julian P. Guinn
Paris
Interviewed by:
Judge C. Creed McGinley
Albert C. Harvey
Memphis
Interviewed by:
William H. Haltom, Jr.
F. Evans Harvill
Clarksville
Interviewed by:
T. Edward Lawwell
Judge Thomas A. Higgins
Nashville
Interviewed by:
Thomas H. Peebles III
Anna F. Hinds
Knoxville
Interviewed by:
Charles W. Swanson
Justice Janice M. Holder
Memphis
Interviewed by:
William H. Haltom, Jr.
Benjamin L. Hooks
Memphis
Interviewed by:
Lucian T. Pera
G. Wilson Horde
Knoxville
Interviewed by:
Robert M. Stivers, Jr.
Judge Odell Horton, Sr.
Memphis
Interviewed by:
Sheila Jordan Cunningham
Judge Lyman E. Ingram
Dyersburg
Interviewed by:
Judge Joe G. Riley, Jr.
Judge William H. Inman
Morristown
Interviewed by:
Kathryn Reed Edge
Claudia S. Jack
Columbia
Interviewed by:
Linda W. Knight
Judge James H. Jarvis II
Knoxville
Interviewed by:
Howard H. Vogel
William L. Jenkins
Rogersville
Interviewed by:
W. Lewis Jenkins Jr.
William C. Keaton
Hohenwald
Interviewed by:
W. Landis Turner
Judge Irvin H. Kilcrease, Jr.
Nashville
Interviewed by:
Judge Frank G. Clement, Jr.
Lowry F. Kline
Chattanooga
Interviewed by:
Roger W. Dickson
Justice William C. Koch, Jr.
Nashville
Interviewed by:
Judge Frank G. Clement, Jr.
Chancellor Richard E. Ladd, Sr.
Bristol
Interviewed by:
Judge John S. McLellan
T. Edward Lawwell
Columbia
Interviewed by:
N. Houston Parks
Robert L. McMurray
Cleveland
Interviewed by:
Marcia M. McMurray
Judge Gilbert S. Merritt
Nashville
Interviewed by:
N. Sue Van Sant Palmer
Jimmie C. Miller
Kingsport
Interviewed by:
William C. Bovender
James F. Neal
Nashville
Interviewed by:
Aubrey B. Harwell, Jr.
Millard Oakley
Livingston
Interviewed by:
Charles W. Bone
Donald F. Paine
Knoxville
Interviewed by:
Howard H. Vogel
Selma Cash Paty
Chattanooga
Interviewed by:
Justice William M. Barker
William J. Peeler
Waverly
Interviewed by:
Stephen A. Cobb
Thomas R. Prewitt
Memphis
Interviewed by:
W. J. Michael Cody
Judge Chester S. Rainwater
Dandridge
Interviewed by:
Judge Gary R. Wade
Justice Lyle Reid
Brownsville
Interviewed by:
J. Houston Gordon
Arvin H. Reingold
Chattanooga
Interviewed by:
Jerry H. Summers
Judge Muriel J. Robinson
Nashville
Interviewed by:
Judge Carol L. McCoy
Senator John R. Rucker
Murfreesboro
Interviewed by:
Jerry Scott
W. Valerius Sanford, Jr.
Nashville
Interviewed by:
Jack W. Robinson, Sr.
D. Bruce Shine
Kingsport
Interviewed by:
Howard H. Vogel
Wilson Sims
Nashville
Interviewed by:
H. Lee Barfield II
John M. Smartt
Knoxville
Interviewed by:
Donald F. Paine
Don C. Stansberry, Jr.
Huntsville
Interviewed by:
Judge Thomas W. Phillips
Judge Whitney Stegall
Murfressboro
Interviewed by:
Judge Don R. Ash
Jerry H. Summers
Chattanooga
Interviewed by:
Justice William M. Barker
Judge Paul R. Summers
Somerville
Interviewed by:
Attorney General Paul G. Summers
Claude Galbreath Swafford
Jasper
Interviewed by:
Claudia Swafford Haltom
S. Shepherd Tate
Memphis
Interviewed by:
Attorney General Paul G. Summers
George C. Thomas
Dresden
Interviewed by:
Judge Thomas L. Moore, Jr.
Judge Hewitt P. Tomlin, Jr.
Jackson
Interviewed by:
Judge J. Daniel Breen
Charles Trabue, Jr.
Nashville
Interviewed by:
Kathryn Reed Edge
Judge Aleta Arthur Trauger
Nashville
Interviewed by:
Judge Patricia J. Cottrell
Judge Shirley B. Underwood
Johnson City
Interviewed by:
Kathryn Reed Edge
Justice Gary R. Wade
Sevierville
Interviewed by:
Justice William M. Barker
H. Greeley Wells, Jr.
Kingsport
Interviewed by:
Judge Robert H. Montgomery, Jr.
M. Lacy West
Kingsport
Interviewed by:
Dalton L. Townsend
Justice Penny J. White
Knoxville
Interviewed by:
Charles W. Swanson
R. Lee Winchester
Memphis
Interviewed by:
David R. Leake
Judge Thomas A. Wiseman, Jr.
Nashville
Interviewed by:
Thomas A Wiseman III
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