Russell Fowler, a 10th generation Tennessean, has been a member of the Tennessee Bar since 1987. He is currently Associate Director of the 10-county LAET Southern Region and has managed legal aid offices in Chattanooga since 1997. He earned his B.A. in history and political science and his J.D. at the University of Memphis. After serving as the law clerk to Chancellor Neal Small, he was with the Memphis law firm of James S. Cox and Associates for 10 years. He also regularly served as special chancellor in Parts I and II of the Chancery Court of Shelby County.

 

Fowler has over 40 publications on law and legal history, including works for the New England Law Review, The Journal of Supreme Court History, The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, the West Tennessee Historical Society Papers, The Encyclopedia of the American Revolutionary War, and the Smithsonian Institution’s One Day in History series of books. He also wrote the chapter on President Calvin Coolidge in the book “America’s Lawyer-Presidents” published by the ABA and Northwestern University Press and the chapter titled “Calvin Coolidge and the Rule of Law” in the book, “Why Coolidge Matters”.

 

Since 1999, Fowler has been an Adjunct Professor of Political Science at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) where he teaches judicial process, constitutional law, and civil liberties and was selected by the faculty as UTC’s Outstanding Adjunct Professor of 2005.

Russell Fowler has created and taught many CLE courses on subjects such as Tennessee legal history, chancery and appellate practice, constitutional interpretation, federal fair housing law, and insurance and bonding litigation. He is a member if the Chattanooga and Tennessee Bar Association.