Faculty Profile: William Owen

William “Tray” Owen is the staff attorney for the Tennessee Court of Appeals, Middle Section, where he has served for over twenty years. Tray is a graduate of Vanderbilt University (BA, Economics) and the Vanderbilt University School of Law (JD). Following law school, he clerked for the Honorable William C. Koch, Jr. on the Tennessee Court of Appeals. He currently serves on the Executive Board of the American Bar Association’s Council of Appellate Staff Attorneys. Tray has served as the chair of the Nashville Bar Association’s Appellate Practice Committee, is the assistant editor of the NBA’s Appellate Practice Handbook, and is a frequent speaker on topics related to appellate practice. He has a particular interest in the use of technology in the courts and is a member of the Tennessee Supreme Court’s Technology Oversight Committee and Trial Court E-Filing Oversight Committee. In his spare time, Tray enjoys photography, mountain biking, and volunteering with Nashville’s Office of Emergency Management. He lives in Nashville with his wife, Amy, and their three children.