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Butler Snow Attorney Elected Tennessee State Delegate to ABA House of Delegates

January 14, 2013 | by Butler Snow

Butler, Snow, O’Mara, Stevens & Cannada, PLLC (Butler Snow) attorney Randall D. Noel has been elected as the Tennessee State Delegate to the American Bar Association (ABA) House of Delegates, the organization’s policy-making body.

“Randy is an excellent attorney and leader, and I couldn’t think of anyone more deserving of this honor than him.” said Donald Clark, Jr., Chairman, Butler Snow. “He will serve the Tennessee members well in the House of Delegates.”

Noel is a member of the firm’s Commercial Litigation Group and specializes in business litigation, products liability and toxic tort defense, and health care litigation. He has been named in The Best Lawyers in America for Commercial Litigation and Banking and Finance Litigation, Chambers USA as one of America’s Leading Lawyers for Business in General Commercial Litigation. Noel has also been named a Mid-South Super Lawyer in Business Litigation and one of the Top 150 Lawyers in Tennessee by Business Tennessee Magazine. He is a member of the American Counsel Association, the Tennessee Bar Association, the Tennessee Legal Community Foundation, the American Bar Association, the American Bar Foundation, and the American Judicature Society. He received both his undergraduate degree and Juris Doctorate from the University of Mississippi.

The control and administration of the ABA is vested in the House of Delegates. The House meets twice each year, at ABA Annual and Midyear meetings.  Action taken by the House of Delegates on specific issues becomes official ABA policy.  The group consists of 560 members made up of 52 state delegates, state bar association delegates, local bar association delegates, delegates-at-large, present and former officers and board members, section and conference delegates, Ex Officio members, affiliated organization delegates, and members-at-large. State delegates are elected by lawyers in good standing and accredited with the state in which the election is being held.