Samantha is a member of Butler Snow’s Constitutional and Civil Rights Litigation group.
Overview
Samantha is a member of Butler Snow’s Constitutional and Civil Rights Litigation group.
Experience
- Lead counsel in end stage death penalty state litigation
- Lead counsel for the State of Tennessee in State v. Zachary Rye Adams, W2020-01208-CCA-R3-CD, the convicted killer of Holly Bobo
- Represented the State of Tennessee before the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals, Tennessee Court of Appeals, Tennessee Supreme Court, and the United States Supreme Court
Bar Admissions
- Tennessee, 2016
- U.S. Supreme Court
Education
- Belmont University, J.D., cum laude, 2016
- Bruin Scholarship
- Belmont Law Review
- Dean’s List
- Best Performance Award for Contracts and Sales
- Winner of Dean’s Cup Tournament
- Harding University, B.S., Public Administration, summa cum laude, 2012
- Trustees Scholarship
- Honors College Graduate with Distinction
- Alpha Chi National Honors Society
- Pi Sigma Alpha Political Science Honors Society
Associations
- Lawyers’ Association for Women: Marion Griffin Chapter
- Archivist, 2020-2022
- Second Year Director, 2019-2020
- First Year Director, 2018-2019
- Co-Chair of Community Relations Committee, 2017-2018
- Nashville Bar Association
- Young Lawyers Division
- Arts Immersion Co-Chair, 2018-2021
- Tennessee Bar Association
- Criminal Justice Section
- Executive Council Member, 2019-2022
- Criminal Justice Section
- American Inn of Court at Belmont University
- Membership Committee, Co-Chair, 2018-2022
- American Bar Association
- Litigation Section
Papers, Presentations & Publications
- Speaker
- TBA Criminal Law Day – November 2019
- TBA Criminal Law Day – November 2020
- Meet the Mentors – September 2021
- Court of Criminal Appeals Boot Camp 2021 – November 2021
- TBA Criminal Law Day – November 2021
- Criminal Law Update – February 2022
- Producer
- Criminal Law Forum – December 2020
- Women’s Suffrage Movement – October 2020
- TBA Middle Tennessee Law Student panel – March 2021
- “Criminal Law Basics” – July 2021
- Lawyers in Law Enforcement – January 2022
- Scholarly articles
- “Election Roundup” – Nashville Bar Journal, February/March 2021 issue
- “Advancing Executive Branch Immigration Policy Through the Attorney General’s Review Authority” – Iowa Law Review, March 2016 issue
Civic Involvement
- Bailiff and scorer for the Tennessee High School Mock Trial competition
- Judge for Belmont University College of Law’s Dean’s Cup moot court competition
- Judge for Vanderbilt Law School’s mock trial competition
- Judge for Tennessee Intercollegiate State Legislature’s AMC3 moot court competition
- Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee’s McHugh Legal Clinic volunteer