Faculty Profile: Michael Higdon

MICHAEL J. HIGDON is an associate professor at the University of Tennessee College of Law. He teaches and writes in the areas of family law, trusts and estates, and legal writing. He serves as member of the national Board of Directors for the Legal Writing Institute. Higdon received his law degree in 2001 from the University of Nevada, graduating first in his class and receiving the James E. Rogers Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement. While in law school, he served as editor-in-chief of the Nevada Law Journal.  He went on to clerk for Judge Procter Hug Jr. on the U.S. Court of the Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.