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Linda Whitlow Knight
Member
Phone: 615.244.4994 x 248
Fax: 615.256.6339
Email: lknight@gsrm.com
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Linda Whitlow Knight is a member of Gullett Sanford Robinson & Martin PLLC, where her practice areas include bankruptcy law, commercial law and litigation, and general business law. Ms. Knight has experience in business and consumer bankruptcies, representing secured and unsecured creditors, committees, business debtors, trustees, defendants in avoidance actions and other bankruptcy litigation, and purchasers of assets. She is experienced in non-bankruptcy workouts. Ms. Knight also defends title insurance claims.
She has produced and spoken at numerous continuing legal education programs. Ms. Knight was a law clerk to Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Frank F. Drowota. She is a member of the American, Tennessee (member, Bankruptcy Committee) and Nashville (past Secretary; member, Bankruptcy Court, Appellate Practice and Federal Court Committees; member and past Chair, Continuing Legal Education Committee and recipient of CLE Excellence Award) Bar Associations, a fellow of the Tennessee and Nashville Bar Foundations, and a special member of the Alabama State Bar. She is a member and past Chair of the Bench-Bar Relations Committee of the Tennessee Judicial Conference, a Board member of the Tennessee Supreme Court Historical Society, and a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute and Turnaround Management Association. Ms. Knight is also a member of the Nashville Lawyers’ Association for Women and past President and current Treasurer of the Tennessee Lawyers’ Association for Women. She is a past Hearing Panel member for the Board of Professional Responsibility. From 2006 through 2010, she was a founding member of the Tennessee Ethics Commission, appointed by the Speaker of the House. From 1998 to 2004, she served on the Tennessee Economic Council on Women, appointed by the Governor, and was Secretary during her entire tenure.
Ms. Knight earned her B.A., cum laude, from Vanderbilt University and J.D., magna cum laude, from Cumberland School of Law.
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- Cumberland School of Law, Samford University, J.D. (1976), magna cum laude
- Vanderbilt University, B.A. (1971), cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
- Sweet Briar College (1967 - 1969), Class President (2006 – 2011)
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| Bar Admissions: |
- Tennessee (1981), Alabama (1976)
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| Court Admissions: |
- United States Supreme Court
- United States Courts of Appeal, Sixth Circuit and Third Circuits
- United States District Court for the Western, Middle and Eastern Districts of Tennessee
- United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama
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| Associations: |
- American Bar Association, Section on Litigation
- Tennessee Bar Association, Bankruptcy Section
- Nashville Bar Association, Bankruptcy Court Committee, Continuing Legal Education Committee (CLE Award 2005) and Federal Court Committee; Former Secretary
- Federal Bar Association
- American Bankruptcy Institute; Turnaround Management Association
- Tennessee Lawyers’ Association for Women, Treasurer; Former President; wrote two Amicus Curiae Briefs in U. S. Supreme Court, Brentwood Academy v. Tennessee Secondary Schools Athletic Assn, 2000 and 2007
- Nashville Lawyers’ Association for Women
- Martindale-Hubbell AV® Peer Review Rated
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- Tennessee Supreme Court Board of Professional Responsibility, Hearing Officer
- Tennessee and Nashville Bar Foundations, Fellow
- Commissioner, Tennessee Ethics Commission
- Tennessee Supreme Court Historical Society, Director; Newsletter Editor (2006 – 2007)
- Tennessee Judicial Conference Bench-Bar Relations Committee
- Tennessee Economic Council on Women (1998 – 2004; Secretary, 1998 – 2004)
- Tennessee Women’s Economic Council Foundation, Board (2004 – 2007)
- Phi Beta Kappa Association of Nashville, Secretary
- English-Speaking Union
- Board, Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge University, England
- Kiwanis Club of Nashville
- Board of Directors, Homeowners’ Association
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