Background
Hagood, Lewis Russell was born on July 13, 1930 in Persia, Tennessee, United States. Son of Hobart Verlin and Stella Rose (Carter) Hagood.
Hagood, Lewis Russell was born on July 13, 1930 in Persia, Tennessee, United States. Son of Hobart Verlin and Stella Rose (Carter) Hagood.
Lincoln Memorial University and East Tennessee State College (Bachelor of Science, 1952). University of Tennessee (Juris Doctor, 1963). Order of the Coif; Phi Kappa Phi.
Phi Alpha Delta.
Editor-in-Chief, Tennessee Law Review, 1963-1964.
Worked at Arnett, Draper & Hagood (Knoxville, Tennessee) specializing in General Civil Practice in all State and Federal Courts. Trials, Negligence, Malpractice, Products Liability, Aviation, Labor, Corporate, Probate, Commercial Law, Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Defense and Health Care Law. Admitted to the bar, 1964, Tennessee and United States.
District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee.
1968, United States. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit. 1975, United States.
District Court, Eastern District of Kentucky. 1984, United States. Supreme Court.
Order of the Coif; Phi Kappa Phi.
Phi Alpha Delta. Editor-in-Chief, Tennessee Law Review, 1963-1964. Author: "Employers Duty to Bargain Under the National Labor Relations Acting," 30 Tennessee
Law Review, 543; "The Role of the Judiciary in Labor Arbitration," 30 Tennessee Law Review, 408.
"The Agency Shop as a Union Security Device," 31 Tennessee Law Review, 318. Contributing Editor, The Developing Labor Law, 1971. Listed in The Best Lawyers in America.
Federal Mediator, Certified by United States.
District Court. Member and Secretary, Tennessee Board of Bar Examiners. Member: Knoxville, Tennessee (Chairman, Labor Law Section, 1979-1980) and American (Member, Sections on: Employment and Labor Relations) Bar Associations.
The firm was founded in 1954. During that year Foster Doctorate. Arnett decided to leave a well-respected Knoxville law firm and establish his own office.
Jack B. Draper joined him in 1958, and seven years later Lewis R. Hagood became a member of the firm.
Arnett, Draper and Hagood is focused in the field of civil law and it is privileged to serve a wide variety of personal and corporate clients. Many prominent local, regional, and national corporations are included in the firm"s clientele. Attorneys at Arnett, Draper and Hagood have a strong commitment to the legal profession, to the organized bar, and to a pattern of community involvement.
Board of directors Knoxville Symphony Society, since 1977. Member East Tennessee chapter Marchof Dimes, 1981-1984. Board directors Knoxville Teen Center, Inc., 1975-1997.
With United States Army, 1954-1956. Fellow Tennessee Bar Foundation. Member American Bar Association, Tennessee Bar Association (past chairman labor law section), Knoxville Bar Association.
Married Mary Evelyn Morrisette, March 15, 1952. Children: Lewis Russell Junior, Mary Victoria, Paul Gregory.