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Hal Hardin honored with Leech Award for Public Service




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Nashville attorney Hal Hardin was honored with this year’s William M. Leech, Jr. Public Service Award by the Tennessee Bar Association Young Lawyers Division (TBA YLD) Fellows. Hardin was presented the award during the Tennessee Bar Association annual convention in Nashville on Friday, June 14.

The Leech Award is presented each year to a Tennessee lawyer who has given outstanding service to the legal profession, the legal system, and the local community. It is awarded by the Fellows of the Young Lawyers Division, a non-profit organization formed to support the development of young attorneys in the state. The award winner is chosen by the Fellows board.

“Hal Hardin personifies the William Leech Public Service Award, as a great civil rights lawyer, conservationist and visionary who has shaped the history of Nashville and Davidson County,” said TBA YLD Foundation president Bill Haltom. “He has both witnessed history and made history.”

U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander spoke at the ceremony, calling Hardin a “hero.”

 

 

A graduate of Vanderbilt Law School and Middle Tennessee State University, Hardin’s career includes service as:  Presidential-appointed U.S. Attorney, Circuit Court Judge, Presiding Judge of the Trial Courts, Special Judge Court of Appeals, and Assistant District Attorney. He has previously been honored with several awards including the Nashville Bar Association’s John C. Tune Award (the Bar’s highest award), Nashville Bar Foundation Rutherford Award for highest standards of collegiality and professionalism, Nashville School of Law’s Distinguished Faculty Award, and the Nashville Bar Association’s Jack Norman Award for criminal law excellence. He is the immediate past president of the National Association of Former U.S. Attorneys. He was president of the Tennessee Supreme Court Historical Society and is the former president of the Tennessee Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates. He is the former General Counsel for the Tennessee Bar.

Hardin has taught at Nashville School of Law and Aquinas College. He served as an early Peace Corps volunteer in Columbia. He was briefly Acting Director of the St. Louis Job Corp for Women. Hardin is also in Keel Hunt’s best-selling books “Coup,” where he is portrayed as the hero in Tennessee Governor Roy Blanton’s ouster, and “Crossing the Aisle.” 

Hardin Law Office is located on the Public Square in The Stahlman Building, Nashville.

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