Faculty Profile: Hon. W. McBrayer

Hon. W. Neal McBrayer is a Judge for the Tennessee Court of Appeals. Judge McBrayer was appointed to the bench by Governor Bill Haslam and sworn in on May 5, 2014. He was elected to a full eight-year term in August of 2014. Prior to his appointment, Judge McBrayer practiced law for twenty-five years in Nashville, representing clients in commercial litigation, bankruptcy and aviation matters. As a partner with Butler Snow LLP, he was listed in The Best Lawyers in America® and recognized as a Mid-South Super Lawyer.® Judge McBrayer graduated from Maryville College, magna cum laude, in 1986 and from the College of William & Mary’s Marshall-Wythe School of Law in 1989, where he was an editor of the William & Mary Law Review. He is a fellow of the American Bar Foundation. the Tennessee Bar Foundation, and the Nashville Bar Foundation. He received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Maryville College in 2015. Judge McBrayer is co-author of Tennessee Secured Transactions Under Revised Article 9 of the Uniform Commercial Code: Form and Practice Manual, published by Data Trace Publishing. From 2001 to 2015, Judge McBrayer served as a delegate to the Tennessee Bar Association House of Delegates. He is also a past-president of the Belmont University College of Law American Inn of Court and the Mid-South Commercial Law Institute and a past-chair of the Bankruptcy Law Section of the Tennessee Bar Association and the Business Court Rules Advisory Commission.