[382] JUDGE DAUGHTREY PRESENTS MARCH 26 LECTURE AT MTSU

Release date: March 24, 2009


News & Public Affairs contact: Randy Weiler, 615-898-2919 or jweiler@mtsu.edu
Honors College contact: Dr. John Vile, 615-898-2152 or jvile@mtsu.edu


HONORS COLLEGE SPEAKER JUDGE DAUGHTREY
TAKES ON FIRST AMENDMENT, CULTURE MARCH 26


(MURFREESBORO) — The Hon. Martha C. Daughtrey will present a lecture, “Judicial Independence in Jeopardy: The First Amendment and Culture Wars,” at MTSU on Thursday, March 26, at 1 p.m. in the Business and Aerospace Building’s State Farm Room (BAS S102).
The lecture is presented as part of the University Honors College Martin Lectureship.
“The judicial branch of government is sometimes the least understood and the most ignored, but it remains vital to the functioning of a democratic republic, and Judge Daughtrey’s extensive experience gives her unique insights into this institution,” said Dr. John Vile, dean of the University Honors College.
Daughtrey, of Nashville, serves as a senior circuit judge on the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, to which then-President Bill Clinton appointed her in 1993. She was the first woman from Tennessee selected to serve on the Sixth Circuit bench.
Daughtrey graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1964 and Vanderbilt University School of Law in 1968. After working in private practice in Nashville, she joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office as an assistant U.S. attorney in 1968. From 1969 to 1972, Daughtrey worked as an assistant district attorney in Davidson County.
As the first woman chosen for the faculty of Vanderbilt’s law school, Daughtrey spent almost 20 years serving as a professor, lecturer and adjunct professor form 1971 to 1990. She also was the first woman to serve on both the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals and the Tennessee Supreme Court.
Daughtrey has been recognized by many national organizations for her achievements. She was named one of Ladies Home Journal’s 30 Women to Watch and Woman of the Year by Women Professionals International in 1976.
“Her talk will make a nice balance to last year’s Martin Lecture by Governor Bredesen from the executive branch of government,” Vile said.
The Paul W. Martin Sr. Lectureship, funded by Dr. H. Lee Martin, son of Paul W. Martin Sr., was established in 2004 to enhance the stature of the University Honors College at MTSU and to enrich the relationship between MTSU and the community.

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Note: Claire Rogers, a student worker in the Office of News and Public Affairs, wrote the news release. She is a junior public relations major from Franklin.