Professor Pierce served as assistant dean from 1972 until 1974. He was a fellow in law and the humanities at Harvard University for a year and a visiting professor at Washington University in St. Louis for a year. His academic interests relate to corporate law and the regulation of the legal profession. Professor Pierce received the Carden Award for Outstanding Institutional Service in 1993 and 1999. In 1997 he was awarded the Bass Berry & Sims Award for Outstanding Service to the Bench and Bar and the Tennessee Bar Association President’s Award for Outstanding Service, and was again awarded the Bass Berry & Sims Award for Outstanding Service to the Bench and Bar in 2002.

Professor Pierce has served as chairperson of the Tennessee Valley Authority Board of Contract Appeals and as the reporter for the Tennessee Bar Association’s Standing Committee for Ethics and Professional Responsibility. After serving as interim director of UT’s Howard Baker, Jr. Center for Public Policy for a year, he was named director and has since retired.

BA, 1969, Yale University

JD, 1972, Yale Law School