Press Releases

July 25, 2015

Francis Guess, a Nashville community leader who served the legal profession in many ways, died Friday in Nashville.

Mr. Guess served both the Access to Justice Commission and the Board of Professional Responsibility. As a non-lawyer, he provided a distinctive viewpoint to issues that faced…



Justice Gary Wade , Justice Wade and former TBA President Jonathan Steen in 2014 when Justice Wade was presented with the Tennessee Bar Association Frank F. Drowota III Outstanding Judicial Service Award. , Justice Wade speaks to a delegate at Girls State in 2014.
July 24, 2015

Supreme Court Justice Gary R. Wade, who has served the Tennessee judiciary for 28 years as a judge, justice, and chief justice, has announced he will retire in September.

Justice Wade was appointed to the Supreme Court by Gov. Phil Bredesen in 2006. Wade was elected by his fellow…



July 23, 2015

The Tennessee Supreme Court has upheld the decision by a hearing panel of the Board of Professional Responsibility to suspend Anderson County lawyer Yarboro Sallee’s law license for one year. The Court held that the sanction was appropriate in light of the multiple ethical violations Ms. Sallee…