Justin Wilson (lawyer)
| Justin Wilson | |
|---|---|
| Comptroller of Tennessee | |
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Assumed office January 15, 2009 |
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| Governor |
Phil Bredesen Bill Haslam |
| Preceded by | John Morgan |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
January 4, 1945 Oakland, California, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Barbara Engelhardt |
| Children | 4 |
| Education |
Stanford University (BA) Vanderbilt University (JD) New York University (LLM) Warren National University (MA) |
Justin Potter Wilson (born January 4, 1945) is an American lawyer and Republican politician who is Tennessee state Comptroller of the Treasury. He has been Tennessee deputy governor, a federal judicial nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and an adjunct professor at Vanderbilt University Law School.
Born in Oakland, California, in 1945, Wilson earned a bachelor's degree from Stanford University in 1967, a law degree from Vanderbilt University Law School in 1970, an L.L.M. in taxation from New York University in 1974, and a master's degree in criminal justice from the unaccredited Kennedy-Western University in 1995.
Wilson is a member of the bar in the states of Tennessee and New York. He practiced law with the Nashville law firm of Waller, Lansden, Dortch & Davis from 1976 until 1996. He rejoined the firm in 2003 and resigned in 2009 when he became state comptroller.
From 1996 until 2003, Wilson was deputy governor to Tennessee Governor Don Sundquist, in which position he was the governor's chief policy advisor. He also served as a commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation.
As top policy advisor to Governor Sundquist, Wilson focused on environmental issues. He was honored as the state's Conservationist of the Year in 1997. The Justin P. Wilson Cumberland Trail State Park was renamed in his honor in 2002 in recognition of his environmental work, which included cleanup of pollution in the Pigeon River and negotiating land donations from the Tennessee Valley Authority. He was named the Tennessee Conservation League’s “Conservationist of the Year” in 1997. He battled United States Environmental Protection Agency smog rules and toxic waste incineration at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and negotiated water allocation of the Tennessee River with the TVA.
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