The University of Tennessee Southern
Chris Williams is an experienced attorney and mediator, currently serving at Williams Law and Mediation Group since 2012. In addition to legal practice, Chris has been an adjunct faculty member at The University of Tennessee Southern since 2002, specializing in Business Law. Previous experience includes working as an attorney at Harwell, Plant & Williams from 2000 to 2012. Chris holds a Doctor of Law (J.D.) from Samford University, obtained between 1997 and 2000, and a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Political Science and Government from The University of the South, earned from 1993 to 1997.
The University of Tennessee Southern
The University of Tennessee Southern is a four-year public institution, and part of the University of Tennessee System. Formerly Martin Methodist College, originally founded in 1870, UT Southern (established in 2021) sits on a historic campus located in Pulaski, TN, in the beautiful hills of southern Middle Tennessee. The university is home to the UT Southern Firehawks and is convenient to both Nashville (70 miles to the north) and Huntsville, Ala. (40 miles to the south). The University of Tennessee is a statewide system of higher education with campuses in Knoxville, Chattanooga, Martin, Memphis and Pulaski; the UT Space Institute in Tullahoma; the UT Institute of Agriculture with a presence in every Tennessee county; and the statewide Institute for Public Service. The UT system manages Oak Ridge National Laboratory through its UT-Battelle partnership; enrolls about 50,000 students statewide; produces about 11,000 new graduates every year; and represents more than 400,000 alumni around the world.