Justice Programs Faculty

John A. Day

John A. Day is a founding shareholder of Day & Blair, P.C., Nashville. He is Board Certified as a Civil Trial Specialist and has more than 25 years experience in courtroom litigation. John is the author of Day on Torts: A Handbook for Tennessee Tort Lawyers, Founder and Editor of the Tennessee Tort Law Letter, a monthly newsletter about recent developments in Tennessee tort law and co-author of Tennessee Law of Comparative Fault. He was inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers in 2002 and has served as President of the Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association, Chair of the Council of State Presidents of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, and President of the National Board of Trial Advocacy. John currently serves on the Tennessee Supreme Court's Commission on Continuing Legal Education and Specialization. He is an Order of the Coif graduate of the University of North Carolina School of Law.

Penny J. White

Penny J. White is the Director for the University of Tennessee College of Law Center for Advocacy and Dispute Resolution. As director, Penny coordinates the law school's advocacy curriculum, which includes courses in Trial Practice, Pretrial Litigation, Negotiations and Dispute Resolution, Interviewing and Counseling, and Advanced Appellate Advocacy. In addition, she teaches Evidence, Ethics, Trial Practice and Pretrial Litigation. Before joining the UT faculty, Penny served as a Circuit Court Judge, a judge on the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals, and an Associate Justice on the Tennessee Supreme Court. Since leaving the bench she has remained involved in judicial education, serving as Chair of the Faculty Council at the National Judicial College where she teaches Evidence, Ethics, Criminal Procedure, and Capital Litigation. Penny has authored benchbooks for Tennessee's Circuit, General Sessions, and Municipal judges and is coauthoring a national benchbook on Capital Litigation. She was an Order of the Coif graduate of the University of Tennessee College of Law and a Prettyman Fellow at Georgetown University Law Center, where she received her LLM.

Joe G. Riley

Joe G. Riley is a Rule 31 listed mediator with Settlement Solutions. He recently retired as independent Disciplinary Counsel for the Tennessee Court of the Judiciary, a body that investigates and prosecutes allegations of ethical improprieties against Tennessee judges. Joe retired in July 2004 from the bench, having served seven years on the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals and eighteen years as Circuit Court Judge, with civil and criminal jurisdiction, in Lake and Dyer counties. Joe is Past-President of the Tennessee Judicial Conference and a Fellow of the Tennessee Bar Foundation. He has authored numerous legal publications, served as an adjunct professor at the University of Memphis School of Law, and taught seminars for judges, lawyers, and lay groups. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Tennessee and an Order of the Coif graduate of the University of Tennessee College of Law.