 The
Huddleston Law Firm was founded by Robert L. Huddleston, a South Knoxville
attorney, in November, 2005, and is located in the Times Professional
Building on Moody Avenue, approximately one mile south of downtown Knoxville
and the Federal and Knox County Courthouses.The Firm's mission is to provide top-notch legal services to the residents of Knox, Blount, Sevier, Anderson, Roane, Jefferson, Loudon, Union, and Grainger Counties. These services primarily deal with litigation, but the Firm also performs wills and estate planning, contract drafting and enforcement, and domestic law matters, as well as other various legal services. Robert L. Huddleston, as the founder and namesake of the Firm, is a native Tennessean, born in Kingsport on the State's bicentennial. He is the son of Bob, an electrical engineer, and Cindy, a paralegal, of Johnson City, Tennessee. Mr. Huddleston attended high school at Sullivan East High School in East Tennessee and at Cockermouth School in Cockermouth, England, at which time he earned a 4.0 GPA and14 varsity letters. Mr. Huddleston attended East Tennessee State University as a member of their Honors Program. At ETSU, he was a member of the men's tennis team, the executive editor of the East Tennessean, an officer in Omicron Delta Kappa national leadership society, and a member of several other campus organizations. Mr. Huddleston earned his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from ETSU in 1998, graduating cum laude. After two years in Chicago studying medicine (where he served as President of the student body) and working at the Sears Tower, Mr. Huddleston returned to Tennessee in 2000, this time as a student at The University of Tennessee College of Law. After his first year of law school, Mr. Huddleston was chosen - along with law students from Yale, Harvard, and other elite law schools - as a Blackstone Fellow by the Alliance Defense Fund.  Mr. Huddleston
also spent a portion of his second year of law school at George Washington
Law School in Washington, D.C., at which time he also worked for Congressman
Ed Bryant and the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee under Senator
Fred Thompson. For his work during his final year of law school, Mr. Huddleston
was honored for academic excellence in Advanced Constitutional Law.After receiving his Doctorate of Jurisprudence from The University of Tennessee, Mr. Huddleston moved back to Washington, D.C., as an employee of the National Rifle Association's Office of the General Counsel. Mr. Huddleston is licensed to practice law in Tennessee and West Virginia. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the West Virginia Bar Association, and the Knoxville Bar Association. Rob Huddleston is actively involved in the South Knoxville community. He is a Deacon of Immanuel Baptist Church, which he attends with his wife, Angela. Mr. Huddleston remains politically active, having worked dozens of political campaigns, including those of Ed Bryant, Bill Jenkins, George W. Bush, Lamar Alexander, Van Hilleary, Fred Thompson, and Bob Dole. Mr. Huddleston also hosts a successful blog, VOLuntarilyConservative, which has been featured on CNN and in various Tennessee publications. |
