Julie is a regulatory lawyer who has throughout her career represented companies involved in providing transportation services including motor carriers, private carriers, shippers, logistics, air service operators, airmen, aircraft owners, airports, and rail operators, providing regulatory and business counsel. She also represents public and private entities with government affairs consultation as well as economic development regulatory counsel and assists clients with strategic business and personal planning. She is AV®-Preeminent rated by Martindale-Hubbell®.
Overview
Julie is a regulatory lawyer who has throughout her career represented companies involved in providing transportation services including motor carriers, private carriers, shippers, logistics, air service operators, airmen, aircraft owners, airports, and rail operators, providing regulatory and business counsel. She also represents public and private entities with government affairs consultation as well as economic development regulatory counsel and assists clients with strategic business and personal planning. She is AV®-Preeminent rated by Martindale-Hubbell®.
Practice Areas
Industry
Experience
- Represents various transportation and related business companies assisting them with regulatory issues including autonomous vehicle contractual issues, independent contractor status, risk management, CSA system applications and changes to the SMS by FMCSA, and various operational issues addressing types of loads, Master Transportation Rail Agreements, and aircraft sales.
- Represents major development projects (both public and private) involving public finance approvals and funding at local, state and federal levels as well as local and state authorization
- Participates with Butler Snow’s Tort, Transportation & Specialized Litigation group on regulatory matters.
- Practices administrative and regulatory law concentrating in DOT, FMCSA, FAA, TSA, NTSB, FRA, EPA safety compliance issues, licensing, permitting and authority issues, including investigations and audits.
- Co-authored and managed the one-year effort to adopt the Metropolitan Charter for Shelby County and City of Memphis, 2012.
- Consulted for major airlines on aviation international environmental issues and airport access issues.
- Instrumental in authoring and securing congressional passage of 1990 National Noise Policy, Airport Noise and Capacity Act of 1990.
- Counsel to the Jacksonville Port Authority, Jacksonville Transportation Authority and City of Jacksonville, Florida.
- Regional Airport Counsel.
- Lead author of Climate Change Technical Working Group report to Policymakers of the IPCC in 1995, which assessed transportations’ impact on the global atmosphere.
17+ years, Managing Director/Senior Attorney, FedEx.
- Managed FedEx International and Domestic Industry Associations.
- Managed corporate policy on transportation issues.
- Managed domestic and regulatory policy and legal matters including all phases of administrative practice, environmental, safety and international regulatory proceedings including proceedings before the FAA, DOT, and International Civil Aviation Organization.
- Served as trial counsel for FedEx’s Japan and Mexico route authority cases and represented the company in successive international bilateral bids for route authority.
- Partner in Jacksonville law firm; commercial litigation focus including successfully representing the Jacksonville Transportation Authority and the City of Jacksonville regarding the bond validation litigation regarding the Dame Point Bridge crossing the St. John’s River.
Distinctions
- Martindale-Hubbell®
- AV®- Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated
- Super Lawyers®
- Mid-South Super Lawyers, 2006-2007
- Five Star Award, FedEx, 1990 and 1991
- Top Rated Lawyers® -AV Preeminent in Transportation Law, The American Lawyer and Corporate Counsel, June 2012
- Honoree, 90 Years, 90 Women of Achievement Award, The Junior League of Memphis, 2012
- Board of Directors, Downtown Memphis Commission
- Member, Greater Memphis Chamber Government Affairs Executive Council and Transportation Executive Council
- Board of Advisors, Former Board of Directors, Greater Memphis Chamber of Commerce
- Board of Directors and Graduate of the Executive Program 2013, Leadership Memphis
- Former Board of Directors and LDI Graduate, New Memphis Institute
- Former Board of Directors, Facing History and Ourselves
- Emeriti Trustee, Randolph Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, VA
- Emeriti Trustee, The Hutchison School
- Certified as Approved Law School Mentor, Supreme Court of Tennessee
- Fellow, The Memphis Bar Foundation
- Chair, Memphis and Shelby County Metropolitan Government Charter Commission
Bar Admissions
- Florida, 1974
- Tennessee, 1985
- U.S. Court of Appeals
- 5th Circuit
- 11th Circuit
- Federal Circuit
- U.S. Court of International Trade
Education
- University of Florida, J.D., 1974
- Randolph-Macon Woman's College, B.A., Economics, 1971
Associations
- International Aviation Women’s Association
- Board of Directors, 2009-2012
- President, 2006-2008
- Board of Directors, 2009-2012
- American Bar Association
- Air and Space Law Forum
- Tennessee Bar Association
- Memphis Bar Association
- Florida Bar Association
- Association of Women Attorneys
Papers, Presentations & Publications
- Lead Author, “IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) Special Report on Aviation and the Global Atmosphere,” 1999.
- Author, “Our Region’s Mission: To Create Jobs,” Fogelman College of Business Economics, Business Perspectives Outlook 2012.
Civic Involvement
- Board of Directors, Welcome to Memphis, Memphis Convention Non-Profit
- Blight Elimination Steering Group for Downtown Memphis Commission
- Next Generation Working Group for Memphis 3.0 - Strategic Plan for the City