Justin P. Wilson

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Justin P. Wilson is an attorney and community leader in Nashville, Tennessee.

[edit] Education

Wilson received his bachelor's degree from Stanford University in 1967. He received his law degree from Vanderbilt University Law School in 1970. While at Vanderbilt he was an associate editor of the Vanderbilt Law Review and served as Editor-in-Chief of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. He graduated Vanderbilt as a member of the Order of the Coif. He received his L.L.M. in Taxation from the New York University Law School on 1974.

[edit] Public service and recognition

He has served in various high-level appointive roles in TN state government.[1] He was also a nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit by President George H.W. Bush.[2] He served as a member of Environmental Financial Advisory Board of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, as chairman of the Nashville Power Board, as a member of the Nashville, Tennessee and American Bar Associations, as a member of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and as a member of the Executive Committee of the Environmental Section of the Tennessee Bar Associations.[3] He has also served as a Trustee of the Watkins Institute, as a member of The Hermitage National Advisory Board, as a Regent of the Fund for American Studies at Georgetown University, as a member of boards of directors of various Tennessee companies, including Cherokee Equity Corporation, a privately held corporation with marine and real estate interests, as former chairman of the Board of Health for the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County, as a former chairman of the Community Health Agency for Davidson County, as a former trustee with Meharry Medical College where he served on its Executive Committee, as a former chairman of the Vanderbilt University's Blair School of Music Committee of Visitors and a former president of the school, and a former trustee and Treasurer of the Nashville Tree Foundation. [4]

He is also currently an adjunct professor at Vanderbilt University Law School. [5]

A Tennessee state park, the Justin P. Wilson Cumberland Trail State Park, is named after Wilson. [6]

[edit] Present activities

Wilson is currently a partner with the Nashville law firm Waller, Lansden, Dortch & Davis. [7] His practice areas include environmental law, energy law, government relations, estate planning and administration and charitable organizations.