Gary L. Anderson

Associate Professor of Law
S.B., 1960, Iowa State University
J.D., 1962, State University of Iowa
LL.M., 1968, Harvard University

Advocacy, Criminal Procedure, Evidence, Trial Practice

Anderson@libra.law.utk.edu

Professor Anderson serves on the faculty of the UT Legal Clinic. Before coming to UT in 1973, he was a practicing attorney and county attorney in Iowa. Professor Anderson was also a teaching fellow at Harvard University and a member of the faculty at the University of Missouri. He was honored with the 1994 Lionel R. Barrett, Jr. Award from the Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers for his work with the Indigent Defense Funding Crisis Group. Professor Anderson received the Bass, Berry & Sims Award for Outstanding Service to the Bench and Bar. He served as reporter for the Tennessee Indigent Defense Commission from 1995 to 1998.

Publications

Chapters:

The Preliminary Hearing, in Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice (Free Press, 1983).

Articles:

Post-Conviction Relief in Tennessee: 14 years of Judicial Administration Under the Post-Conviction Procedure Act, 48 Tenn. L. Rev. 605 (1981).

Selected Achievements and Affiliations

Recipient, Lionel R. Barrett, Jr. Award, Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, 1994.

Reporter, Tennessee Indigent Defense Commission.

Recipient, Bass, Berry and Sims Award for Outstanding Service to Bench and Bar, 1992.

Board of Directors, Community Alternatives to Prison.

Member, Steering Committee & Chair, Research Committee, Tennessee Criminal Justice Funding Crisis Group, 1992-94.

Tennessee Post-Conviction Study Committee, 1992-94.

Delegate, Citizen Ambassador Program, three-week study of criminal justice system in China, UT Research and Development Grant, 1987.

October 20, 2003