Southern Adventist names Merryman as vice president
Jason Merryman has been named vice president for enrollment management at Southern Adventist University in Collegedale.
Merryman graduated from the university in 1998 and previously served as director of financial aid and enrollment services at Southern from 2005 to 2012. Merryman now holds a master’s degree in organizational management and brings more than 10 years of higher education leadership experience to this position.
Southern Adventist University President David Smith said Merryman “brings to us significant experience, and his positive attitude, great relational skills, and willingness to creatively face challenges will help guide us as we face our future.”
Court appoints Parsley to Board of Law Examiners
Robert F. (Bob) Parsley, a litigation attorney with Miller & Martin’s Chattanooga office, has been appointed by the Tennessee Supreme Court to the Tennessee Board of Law Examiners.
Parsley is one of five board members, each appointed by the Tennessee Supreme Court, who oversee the Tennessee’s licensing of attorneys and addressing issues relating to the admission of attorneys by exam and through comity applications (where the attorney is already licensed in another jurisdiction).
Before his appointment to the Board in 2020, Parsley served from 2016 through 2019 as a Tennessee Bar Examiner, with responsibility for preparing and grading bar exams. In that role he also authored the evidence and appellate procedural sections of the Tennessee Law Course, which all newly admitted Tennessee attorneys must take.
Parsley is a member of Miller & Martin and is the chair of the firm’s Appellate Practice Group.
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