GPEC Attorney Joshua Anderson Named 2024 Maryville College Alumni Award Winner

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GPEC Attorney Joshua Anderson Named 2024 Maryville College Alumni Award Winner

Congrats to Joshua Anderson on being selected as the co-recipient of Maryville College’s Kin Takahashi Award for Young Alumni, along with his wife Molly Ridgeway Anderson, in recognition of their advocacy and lobbying for the passage of multiple Tennessee laws over the past few years. You can read more about this honor

here:


https://www.maryvillecollege.edu/news/2024/four-scots-honored-with-2024-maryville-college-alumni-awards/.

October 24, 2025
At Legal Aid of East Tennessee’s 60th Anniversary celebration on October 23, Gearhiser, Peters, Elliott & Cannon, PLLC was honored as the organization’s Pro Bono Firm of the Year.  Member Sam Elliott said: "Many lawyers in our firm have supported the efforts of Legal Aid of East Tennessee and other pro bono initiatives through the years, either directly providing pro bono services through LAET, through financial contributions to LAET or other worthy organizations, or through the Chattanooga Bar Association, Tennessee Bar Association, or the Tennessee Bar Foundation. We are humbled to be recognized in such a significant way."
July 10, 2025
At the 144th Annual Tennessee Bar Association Convention, David McDowell was elected to serve as the Vice President of the Tennessee Bar Association Young Lawyers Division Fellows, and began another term of service as the East Tennessee Governor on the Tennessee Bar Association Board of Governors.