Background
Porter, Dudley was born on May 10, 1915 in Paris, Tennessee, United States. Son of Dudley and Mary (Bolling) Porter.
environmentalist foundation executive lawyer
Porter, Dudley was born on May 10, 1915 in Paris, Tennessee, United States. Son of Dudley and Mary (Bolling) Porter.
Murray State College. Cumberland University (Bachelor of Laws, 1936). Assistant Attorney General of Tennessee, 1937-1940.
Member, Tyne, Peebles, Henry & Tyne, Nashville, Tennessee, 1940-1949. General Counsel and Senior Counsel of Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1949-1976. Chairman, Legal Section, American Life Convention, Life Insurance Company Trade Association, 1958.
Worked at Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C. (Chattanooga, Tennessee) specializing in General Practice. Trials in all State and Federal Courts and before the United States. Patent and Trademark Office.
Corporation, Taxation, Pension Plans and Employee Benefits, Bankruptcy, Commercial, Banking, Antitrust and Trade Regulation, Securities, Real Estate, Environmental, Estate Planning, Trusts and Probate, Pension and Profit Sharing, Administrative and Municipal, Hospital and Health, Food and Drug, Products Liability, Professional Liability, Insurance and Labor, Patent, Trademark, Copyright Law. Admitted to the bar, 1937, Tennessee. 1971, United States. Supreme Court.
Assistant Attorney General of Tennessee, 1937-1940. General Counsel and Senior Counsel of Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 1949-1976. Chairman, Legal Section, American Life Convention, Life Insurance Company Trade Association, 1958.
Member: Tennessee State Health Planning Council, 1970-1976. Tennessee Historical Commission, 1976-1986. Member: Chattanooga and Tennessee (Chairman, Committees on: Continuing Legal Education, 1959.
Uniform State Laws, 1965) Bar Associations. Association of Life Insurance Counsel (President, 1974-1975). Military: With United States.
Army, Judge Advocate, 1942-1946. Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel, P.C. has an extensive business, litigation, tax, health care and trust and estates practice. Our firm was created from the combination in 1997 of the law firms of Chambliss & Bahner and Stophel & Stophel which had more than 185 years of combined legal experience.
The firm serves as general and regional counsel for a number of major businesses, financial institutions, local governments and nonprofit organizations. We also have substantial experience representing public entities and boards in both Tennessee and Georgia. The firm provides litigation and transaction services to a variety of businesses and financial institutions--large and small--in the tri-state region.
Member Hamilton County Juvenile Court Commission, 1958-1964, chairman, 1964. Member Tennessee Health Planning Council, 1968-1976, Tennessee History Commission, 1976-1986. Trustee Hermitage Association, Nashville, 1983-1990.
An incorporator, member board Senior Neighbors Chattanooga, 1960-1966. Vice chairman, trustee Maclellan Charitable Trust. With Army of the United States, 1942-1946.
Judge advisory 100th Infantry Division European Theatre of Operations. Member American, Tennessee, Chattanooga bar associations, American Life Convention (chairman legal section 1958), Association Life Insurance Counsel (executive committee since 1970, president 1974-1975), Nature Conservancy (life, co-founder and trustee Tennessee chapter), Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Clubs: Mountain City (Chattanooga).
Belle Meade Country (Nashville).
Married Mary Rhoda Montague, October 21, 1950.