Faculty Profile: Doug Hamill

Doug focuses his practice on employment law, representing victims of employment discrimination, unlawful retaliation, and harassment. He has successfully tried employment cases to juries in both federal and state courts, including obtaining punitive damages awards for his clients. While many of Doug's cases involve retaliatory discharge and whistleblower claims, he also has significant experience litigating employment claims involving disability discrimination, age discrimination, race discrimination, sexual harassment, and military discrimination.
Doug is a native of Mississippi, but has lived in Chattanooga since 2003. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from King College in Bristol, Tennessee in 1999 and his law degree from the University of Tennessee in 2003. In law school, Doug was a member of the Tennessee Law Review, which published his article, "The Fifty Dollar Fines Clause Re-Emerges After Thirty-Five Years of Slumber" 70 Tenn. L. Rev. 887 (2003). After law school, Doug was a judicial clerk for the Chancery Court of Hamilton County. Doug has been practicing in the field of employment law since 2004.
Doug is rated AV Preeminent by Martindale Hubbell, which is the highest rating for lawyers. He is admitted to practice in all courts in Tennessee, as well as the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He has also litigated before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's Federal Sector Hearings Unit and the U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board. Doug's professional memberships include the National Employment Lawyers Association, past board member of the Tennessee chapter of the National Employment Lawyers Association, the Federal Bar Association, the Tennessee Bar Association, and the Chattanooga Bar Association.
Doug spends most of his free time with his wife, Julie, and his six children (four boys and two girls). He is also active in his church, Mountain Fellowship, and with Cub and Boy Scouts.