Ed E. Williams III

Background

III, Ed E. Williams was born on February 6, 1948 in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, United States. Son of Eddie E. Junior.

Education

Bachelor of Science, Wofford College, 1970; Juris Doctor, Vanderbilt University, 1973.

Career

Managing partner, Baker Worthington, Johnson City, Tennessee. Special judge Tennessee Court Criminal Appeals. Faculty member, member founding committee First Tennessee Judicial Academy Vanderbilt University.

Special associate professor, lecturer constitutional law Criminal Law and Court Administration East Tennessee State University;member board professional responsibliity Supreme Court Tennessee. Member, private judge Private Adjudication Center, Inc. Duke U.; pro-bono attorney and/or board directors The Nature Conservancy, Southern Appalachian Highland Conservancy, Trust for Public Land, Buffalo Mountain Ecological Park.

President, founder & chairman Open Spaces Consevancy, Inc.

Achievements

• Editor E. Williams III has been listed as a reputable Lawyer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Chairman commission on the future East Tennessee State University. Former member Tennessee Bd.Regents, Governor's Safe Growth Action Team, 1979-1986. Member Center for Public.Resources, member various panels.

Senior partner board Tennessee Economics Partnership. Former member Governor's Select Committee on Clean Water, State Conservation Commission, Blue Ribbon Task Force for Judicial Reform in Tennessee, Governor's Transition Team. Fellow Tenn Bar Foundation, International Academy Trial Judges.

Member Tennessee Bar Association (Law Day award), Tennessee Nature Conservancy (board directors), National Park Foundation (trustee, member Executive Committee).

Connections

Married Mary Johnson, May 26, 1989. Children: Jim, Jackson, Tyler, Whitney, Lindsey.

Father:

Eddie E. III Junior

Spouse:

Mary Johnson

child:

Lindsey III

child:

Tyler III

child:

Jackson III

child:

Jim III

child:

Whitney III