Sam Elliott, a member of Gearhiser Peters Elliott & Cannon, recently has been confirmed as chair-elect of the Tennessee Bar Foundation’s board of trustees at the Foundation’s annual meeting in Memphis in June.
He will serve a one-year term, and succeed to the chairmanship in June 2025.
The Tennessee Bar Foundation was established in 1982 to administer Tennessee’s IOLTA (Interest On Lawyers’ Trust Accounts) program, honor distinguished attorneys as “Fellows,” and support law-related public interest projects.
The IOLTA program has previously announced 2024 grants totaling $3,000,000, to support Tennessee’s Legal Aid programs and other nonprofit organizations which provide legal services to the poor and/or work to improve the administration of justice.
Elliott was also recently notified of his appointment to the reorganized Tennessee Historical Commission. Elliott has served on the Commission since 2005 and was the chairman from 2009 to 2015. He is an avocational historian of Tennessee during the Civil War and has had several books, essays and articles published, including award-winning biographies of Isham G. Harris and John C. Brown.