– Nine attorneys from Rutherford County appeared before the United States Supreme Court with Tennessee Circuit Court Judge M. Keith Siskin on Wednesday, March 25, 2015, at which time Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr., granted Judge Siskin’s motion for the attorneys to be admitted as members of the Supreme Court Bar.
The following attorneys were admitted to the Supreme Court Bar: Lisa Ann Bell; William Stanley Bennett; Kirk D. Catron; Judge Joseph Stephen Daniel; Travis Macon Lampley; Gilbert Wayne McCarter; Thomas Earl Parkerson; Barbara Marie Penland-LaFevers; and Sonya Smith Wright.
Under the rules of the United States Supreme Court, attorneys seeking to be admitted to practice before the Court must be sponsored by an existing member of the Court’s Bar. Judge Siskin was admitted in 2002, and was pleased to nominate the nine local attorneys for admission. “I am honored to sponsor these excellent attorneys for admission to the United States Supreme Court,” Siskin said. “All of these lawyers have distinguished themselves in their work, and each possesses the necessary qualifications to practice law in the highest Court in the land. I commend all of them on this wonderful accomplishment.”
Judge Siskin is the Presiding Judge of the Sixteenth Judicial District of Tennessee, which includes Rutherford and Cannon Counties. The official website for Circuit Court, Division III, can be found at www.rutherfordcountytn.gov/judgesiskin.
