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Dean William Koch

William C. Koch is Dean at the Nashville School of Law. Before joining the school in 2014, Dean Koch served as Justice on the Tennessee Supreme Court for seven years and a judge on the Tennessee Court of Appeals for twenty-three years, serving as presiding judge of the Middle Section of the Court for three years. Prior to his judicial career, Dean Koch served as Counsel to Governor Lamar Alexander, Commissioner of Personnel of the State of Tennessee, and as Assistant, Senior Assistant, and Deputy Attorney General for the State of Tennessee.

Dean Koch is an instructor of Constitutional Law at the Nashville School of Law, and has served as an adjunct professor at Vanderbilt School of Law, and at Belmont University College of Law.

He is Vice President of the Board of Trustees of the American Inns of Court Foundation, has served as Secretary, and is currently a member of the Leadership Council. Dean Koch is the president of the Harry Phillips American Inn of Court in Nashville, TN. He is a member of the Belmont University College of Law American Inn of Court, also in Nashville. He also serves on the boards of the United Way of Metropolitan Nashville and the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee.

Dean Koch graduated from Trinity College in 1969. He received his J.D. degree from Vanderbilt University in 1972 and his LL.M. in Judicial Process from the University of Virginia in 1996.