Anne E. Passino
apassino@rddlawfirm.com
Ms. Passino, who began working for the firm while in her third year of law school, earned her Bachelor of Arts with distinction from the University of Virginia in 2003. After college, Ms. Passino worked in Tennessee and California as a legal assistant and an investigator for a capital litigation defense team. In 2005, before returning to Tennessee for law school, she helped organize and lead the Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer Summer Program for Human Rights at the Center for Capital Assistance in San Francisco.
At the University of Tennessee’s College of Law, Ms. Passino was a member of the Environmental Law Moot Court Team, a staff editor on the Tennessee Journal of Law & Policy, and a research assistant to several professors. For her research into administrative law and the constitutional implications of international regulations under the Clean Air Act, she helped win the Ogden & Sullivan award for the best brief of the 2006-07 Moot Court Term. In 2006, Ms. Passino published an article on the constitutionality of punitive damages in the Journal of Law & Policy and clerked at the Tennessee Court of Appeals in Nashville; in 2007, she worked at the Office of the Georgia Capital Defender in Atlanta, Georgia.
Ms. Passino graduated magna cum laude in May 2008 and has since been admitted to the bars of the State of Tennessee and the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee.
Practice Areas:
Civil Rights
Constitutional Law
Criminal Law
Environmental Law
Bar Admissions:
Supreme Court of Tennessee, 2008
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, 2009
Education:
Doctor of Jurisprudence
University of Tennessee College of Law, Knoxville, Tennessee, 2008
Magna Cum Laude
Tennessee Journal of Law & Policy, 2006 - 2008
Ogden and Sullivan Moot Court Brief Writing Award, 2007
UT College of Law Charles H. Miller Excellence in Civil Advocacy Award, 2008
UT Legal Clinic Faculty’s James Powers Excellence in Advocacy Award, 2008
Bachelor of Arts, with distinction
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, 2003
