Kevin Christopher has been selected to the 2019 Tennessee Rising Stars list by Super Lawyers.
Each year, no more than 2.5% of the lawyers in the state are selected by the research team at Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business.
Chattanooga’s Christopher is the principal of Rockridge Venture Law, the state’s first Certified B Corp law group and a 2019 Best For The World community honoree.
He is a registered patent attorney, active entrepreneur and National Science Foundation evaluator for the research hub Center for Green Solid-State Electric Power Generation and Storage.
Christopher’s practice areas include patent and trademark prosecution, licensing and litigation, corporate law with an emphasis on benefit corporations, socially responsible businesses and high-growth emergent companies, government contracts with an emphasis on innovation funding, corporate and investor financing and technology commercialization.
He is a Tennessee Bar Association leadership lawyer and board member to several environmental and social impact nonprofits, including Chattanooga-based Green|Spaces.
In 2019, Christopher was nationally recognized as a top business leader by Conscious Company Magazine, named to the 2020 class of Leadership Tennessee and appointed by Gov. Bill Lee to the Great Smoky Mountains Park Commission.