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MELANIE E. DAVIS is an attorney with Kizer & Black, where her areas of practice include general civil and business litigation, personal injury, municipal law, land use law, and appellate practice. She has represented the city of Maryville since 1999 and as such represents the city council, the Planning Commission, the Board of Zoning Appeals and the city school board. She has been active in drafting and enforcing numerous ordinances enacted by the city, and in representing the city in its contracts and litigation. She additionally prosecutes city court violations. She represents numerous developers and approximately 50 property associations throughout East Tennessee. She also represents several planning commissions and utility districts in the area. Ms. Davis is board certified in civil trial advocacy by the National Board of Trial Advocacy. She is certified as a civil trial specialist by the Tennessee Commission of Continuing Legal Education and Specialization. She has presented CLE seminars on municipal law, property owners associations and law on the internet. Ms. Davis is licensed to practice before all state courts, the U.S. District Court and the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals. She earned her B.A. degree, high honors, from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and her J.D. degree, cum laude, from the University of Tennessee College of Law, Knoxville. Ms. Davis is a member of the Blunt County Bar Association (program chair, 1999 - 2001; president, 2001 and 2011; Local Rules Committee, 2006). She also is a member of the Knoxville and Tennessee (Executive Committee, Appellate Practice Section, 2008) bar associations, the Tennessee Board of Professional Responsibility (member, Hearing Committee, 2005 - present), the Tennessee Municipal Attorneys Association, and the Tennessee Association of School Board Attorneys. JOSEPH G. JARRET is the Knox County Law Director. This is the third time in his legal career that he has served a public entity as its chief legal counsel, and the second time as a law director for a charter form of county government. He has been practicing law for 21 years. Mr. Jarret has practiced law before the Tennessee Supreme Court, lower state and federal courts, and is a federal and state mediator. He teaches courses in law and public policy for the University of Tennessee, Graduate School of Public Policy and Administration and frequently lectures on behalf of the College of Law. He provides training around the county for public sector attorneys and managers, and frequently presents CLE certified courses on behalf of the Tennessee and Knoxville bar associations. Mr. Jarret is an award-winning writer who has published more than 90 articles in various professional journals. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Troy University, West Germany campus; his Masters in Public Administration degree from Central Michigan University; his Juris Doctor degree from Stetson University College of Law; and his post-graduate certificate in public management from the University of South Florida. JOHN E. OWINGS is special counsel with Robertson, Overbey, Wilson & Beeler where he provides reliable traditional legal services and maintains practice concentrations in business; corporate; employment; labor; personal injury; products liability; municipal; governmental and public utilities law; mediation; and civil litigation, including defending individual police officers, cities and counties in civil rights actions. He is a certified federal and state court mediator since 1995. Mr. Owings earned his A.S. degree from Roane State Community College, and his B.A. and J.D. degrees from the University of Tennessee. He is a member of the Knoxville (past chair, Government Lawyers Section), Roane County, Blount County, Tennessee and American bar associations; and the Tennessee County Attorney's Association (president, 2008 - 2009; secretary-treasurer, 2009 - present). MARY ANN STACKHOUSE is a shareholder with Lewis, King, Krieg & Waldrop, P.C. Her litigation work in Tennessee has been in the areas of civil rights, employment law, personal injury, contract, software litigation, and public access cases in state and federal court. In Alabama, Ms. Stackhouse's litigation work also included felony prosecution and product liability, including electrical and waste disposal truck design. Ms. Stackhouse has argued cases to the Tennessee Court of Appeals and Supreme Court, the Alabama Court of Appeals and Supreme Court, and the 6th and 11th Circuit courts of appeal. She co-wrote the successful brief for the county commission in Presley v. Etowah County Commission, 502 U.S. 491 (1992), a Voting Rights Act case argued to the Supreme Court of the United States. Ms. Stackhouse earned her B.S. degree from the University of Virginia and her J.D. degree from American University. For ten years, Ms. Stackhouse served as adjunct faculty for the University of Tennessee. She is a member of the Tennessee and Knoxville bar associations.
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