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| Name | Van D. Turner |
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Memphis, Tennessee , United States |
| Email | None |
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| Info | Commissioner Turner is a partner in the law firm of Hagler, Bruce & Turner, pllc (“HBT”).
His
law practice is concentrated in the areas of busines
s litigation, business transactions, government
relations, municipal law, and estate planning. Before joining HBT, Mr. Turner was counsel at
Butler, Snow, O’Mara, Cannada & Stevens, PLLC. Prior to that, Mr. Turner served as Associate
General Counsel for
the Board of Education of the Memphis City Schools and as judicial law clerk
for the Honorable Samuel Hardy Mays, Jr., federal judge for the United States District Court for the
Western District of Tennessee.
Commissioner
Turner participates and has serve
d on the board of directors of several legal
professional organizations, including the American Bar Association, the National Bar Association,
the Tennessee Bar Association, the Mississippi Bar Association, and the Memphis Bar Association.
In addition,
he
has been active in a number of other professional, civic and community
organizations, including the Economic Club of Memphis, Chairman of the Shelby County
Democratic Party, 2009
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2013, Leo Bearman, Sr. American Inns of Court, Board of Directors for the
Me
mphis Branch of the NAACP, Leadership Academy and Leadership Memphis, among others.
Commissioner Turner’s
most notable honors include
Memphis Business Journal
, 2007 “Top Forty
Under 40”,
Super Law
Magazine,
Mid
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South Rising Stars
for 2010, 2011, 2012 & 20
13 in the areas
of municipal law, government relations and labor and employment law, and
White House Intern
in
the Office of Presidential Personnel during the Clinton Administration.
Commissioner Turner
has
also served as an adjunct professor at the Unive
rsity of Memphis, C.C. Humphreys School of Law,
LeMoyne
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Owen College and Southwest Tennessee Community College.
Commissioner Turner
earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Morehouse College in Atlanta,
Georgia in 1997, with Phi Beta Kappa and
magna cum l
aude
distinctions. After serving as an
Assistant Teacher of English with the Japanese Exchange and Teaching Program in Yamanashi,
Japan,
he
returned to the United States and attended the University of Tennessee College of Law,
where he earned his Doctor o
f Jurisprudence in 2002.
Commissioner
Turner is licensed to practice
law in Tennessee and Mississippi. He is married to his junior high school sweetheart, Tamara
Turner, a guidance counselor with the Shelby County Schools, and they have three wonderful
c
hildren, Malik, Masai and Malia.
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