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Belmont University announced plans for the College of Law in 2009, with the first class beginning in 2011. [3] Belmont Law was accredited by the American Bar Association in 2013, making it the first new accredited law program in Tennessee in more than 50 years [2] and the first new law school in Middle Tennessee in nearly 100 years. [3]
Nashville School of Law is approved by the Tennessee Board of Law Examiners and graduates may take the bar examination and practice law in the State of Tennessee. The school is not, however, accredited by the American Bar Association. This limits the ability of graduates to practice law in states other than Tennessee. [2]
Older Americans Act of 1965: Long title: To provide assistance in the development of new or improved programs to help older persons through grants to the States for community planning and services and for training, through research, development, or training project grants, and to establish within the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare an operating agency to be designated as the ...
A Master of Studies in Law (MSL) is a master's degree offered by some law schools to students who wish to study the law but do not want to become lawyers. Master of Studies in Law programs typically last one academic year and put students through a similar regimen as first-year Juris Doctor students but may allow for further specialization. [1]
TennCare is the state Medicaid program in the U.S. state of Tennessee. TennCare was established in 1994 under a federal waiver that authorized deviations from the standard Medicaid rules. It was the first state Medicaid program to enroll all Medicaid recipients in managed care . [ 1 ]
Magdalene is a recovery program in Nashville, Tennessee for women who have histories of substance abuse and prostitution. It was founded in 1996 by Becca Stevens, an Episcopal priest and the current chaplain of Saint Augustine's Chapel at Vanderbilt University. The women participating in the program live communally in several residences in ...
Bethel Seminary was founded in 1842 in McLemoresville, Tennessee, and renamed to Bethel College in 1847. The seminary was overseen by the West Tennessee Synod of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, who also oversaw 82 other schools at varying points in its own history. In 1851, the West Tennessee Synod founded a Theology Department at the school.
C. Vernette Grimes: [2] First African American female to graduate from the Kent School of Law in Nashville (1939) [Davidson County, Tennessee] Martha Craig "Cissy" Daughtrey (1968): [13] First female lawyer in Nashville's U.S. Attorney's Office. She is also the first tenure-track female professor at Vanderbilt Law School. [Davidson County ...