Faculty Profile: Gif Thornton

Gif ThorntonAdams and Reese LLP
Current TBA Courses
Previous Courses Taught (11)
  • The Ethical Campaign 2023
  • The Ethical Campaign 2021: The Ethics of Lobbying
  • The Ethical Campaign 2021: The Ethics of Campaign Finance and Compliance
  • The Ethical Campaign: Common Ethical Problems from the Registry
  • The Ethical Campaign: The Ethics of Lobbying
  • The Ethical Campaign: The Ethics of Campaign Finance and Compliance
  • The Ethical Campaign
  • The Ethical Campaign: Campaign Finance Compliance
  • The Ethical Campaign: Maintaining Ethics and Professionalism in Elections
  • The Ethical Campaign: Finance Compliance
  • The Ethical Campaign
Biography

Gif Thornton became Managing Partner of the firm in March of 2015. Preciously he served as legislative counsel to a number of businesses, trade associations and governmental entities with interests before Tennessee state and local government. 
Gif has been named as Best Lawyers “Lawyer of the Year" for both Government Relations and Insurance Law.
Gif is a former member of the Davidson County Election Commission and has served as counsel to a number of statewide Republican campaigns. He was appointed by Governor Bill Lee to chair the Governor’s Council for Judicial Appointments. He was appointed by Nashville Mayor Karl Dean to the Board of the Metropolitan Development Housing Agency. He is former Board President of the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee.
He has served on the Board of Trust of Vanderbilt University and Brentwood Academy.
He is an elder at Christ Presbyterian Church and serves on the board of Covenant Theological Seminary in St. Louis, MO. 
Gif and his wife Anna have four adult children. Gif enjoys running and has completed a number of marathons, including those in Boston, New York, Chicago and Washington DC.
Prior to law school, Gif worked in the Foreign Service as Special Assistant to the Ambassador at the American Embassy in Paris, France.