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Education

June 1981 Bachelor of Arts
David Lipscomb College
Nashville, Tennessee

1981-1982 Intermediate Accounting
Belmont University
Nashville, Tennessee

May 18, 1985 Juris Doctor
Pepperdine University School of Law
Malibu, California

Licensing

  TENNESSEE COURTS
      
       April 15, 1986                          All General Sessions, Circuit, and Chancery Courts
       April 15, 1986                          Court of Appeals    
       April 28, 1986
      
  KENTUCKY COURTS
      
       December 18, 2007                All Courts in the Commonwealth of Kentucky  
       
       July 10, 1987                            United States District Court
                                                          COURTS: Middle, Eastern and Western Districts
      
       July 10, 1987                            United States Bankruptcy Court 
                                                          Middle, Eastern and Western Districts
      
       July 16, 1987                            United States Court of Appeals
                                                          Sixth Circuit 
      
       October 13, 2000                    United States Supreme Court 
      
   Supreme Court    
  
  FEDERAL COURTS
    

Bar Associations

        Tennessee Bar Association
         Kentucky Bar Association
        American Bar Association

Publications

Author “Subcontracting: Mandatory or Permissive Area of Collective Bargaining”, Labor Law Journal, October 1985.

Work History and Experience

1984 Law Clerk
Chief Deputy District Attorney
Ventura County, California

1985 Securities Examiner
State of Tennessee
Department of Commerce and Insurance, Securities Division
Nashville, Tennessee

1986 Associate
Montgomery, Cranford, Kestner and Hardeman
Nashville, Tennessee

1988 Mark A. Ellmore, Attorney at Law
Nashville, Tennessee

           Formed sole proprietorship with a focus on real estate law and secured transactions with some of the largest
           national lenders, including Regions Bank, Suntrust Mortgage, Bank of America, First Tennessee Bank, 
           Cavalry Banking, Wells Fargo Bank, Franklin American Mortgage, The Mortgage Outlet, Chase Mortgage, 
           and other businesses, developers, lenders and mortgage companies.  In addition, it has been a pleasure to 
           have an active working relationship with several of the finest independent agents and builders in the states of
           Tennessee and Kentucky.