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Melinda Branscomb | |
Teaches Dispute Resolution, Negotiation and Mediation, Collaborative Law, Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Labor Law, Torts
B.A. cum laude Vanderbilt University 1972: Phi Kappa Phi. J.D. University of Tennessee School of Law 1980: first in class; Chancellor's Citation for Extraordinary Academic Achievement; Order of the Coif; Tennessee Law Review assistant editor; Moot Court Board; National Moot Court Team (first place, Southeastern Region). Clerk to Chief Justice Brock of the Tennessee Supreme Court.
Professor Branscomb is an active mediator, mentor-mediator, and special education mediator in Washington schools. After her clerkship, she served as an assistant attorney general for Tennessee, and practiced labor and employment law for six years at the United Paperworkers Union's International Headquarters. She joined the faculty in 1989.