Faculty Profile: Ted Hayden

Mr. Hayden has for the past two and one half years served in the capacity of the STREAM Executive Director of Real Estate Compliance, after serving for one year as the Director of Compliance in the Office of the State Architect. In his present position, he is responsible for the legal and policy compliance of all State Government land transactions, except for most TDOT land transactions, and is responsible for the legal and policy compliance of all general government (non-higher education and TDOT), leases and construction projects. His responsibility includes oversight of a Compliance Attorney Team; a Land Transactions Team that closes all real property interest acquisitions and dispositions; a Contracts Team that produces all general government grant contracts and construction related contracts and that conducts all hard bid construction procurements; a Procurement Team that produces all RFPs and RFQs for leasing, construction, and real estate related matters; and a records team that is responsible for the uniformity and preservation of all STREAM real estate, leasing, and construction records. 

Prior to joining the State, Mr. Hayden served as a law clerk to the Honorable Hewitt P. Tomlin of the Western Section of the Tennessee Court of Appeals in Jackson, Tennessee, before beginning his practice at Wildman, Harrold, Allen, Dixon & McDonnell in Memphis, Tennessee in September of 1984. He then joined Less & Scroggs (later Less, Getz & Lipman), in Memphis, where he served as an associate and partner from 1987, through December 31, 2004. In 2005, he formed The Hayden law Firm in Germantown, Tennessee, and served as its managing member until he joined the State in 2013.  During the entirety of his practice, his workload consisting principally of construction contract drafting and negotiation, construction related legal consultation, and construction related litigation. 

He received his Bachelor of Science degree, Summa Cum Laude, from Murray State University in 1980, and his law degree from Vanderbilt University in 1983.