Camille McMullen
Education
- J.D., University of Tennessee
- B.S., Austin Peay State University
Employment
- Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals
Judge Camille McMullen is the epitome of a working mom who daily balances her duties as a Court of Criminal Appeals Judge with being a wife and mother. When she is not drafting opinions, she attends t-ball games and dance lessons for her children and experiments with a different home cooked meal at least once a week.
Judge McMullen served as a law clerk to the Honorable Joe G. Riley, Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals from 1996 to 1997. She then became an Assistant District Attorney General for Shelby County where she tried over 70 jury trials for crimes ranging from simple assault to murder during her tenure there. In 2001 she moved to the United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Tennessee where she was responsible for all aspects of prosecuting criminal cases from indictment through Sixth Circuit appeal. In 2008, she became the first African American woman to serve on the Court of Criminal Appeals.
Of her experience at UT, she says: “My experience at The College of Law was simply invaluable. The College of Law strikes the perfect balance between a superior legal education and the practical exposure to compete and succeed in the real world.”