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Gordon Bonnyman grew up in a large Knoxville family. The family’s religious values and deep Tennessee roots have shaped his career.
Gordon has a BA from Princeton University and a law degree from the University of Tennessee. Since his admission to the bar in 1972, his entire career has been devoted to serving low-income clients.
As a Legal Services attorney for 23 years, Gordon represented thousands of low-income clients in a wide variety of civil matters. He earned a national reputation for his expertise in health policy. His advocacy work in housing, consumer, public benefits, disability rights, nursing home reform, juvenile procedure, civil rights, constitutional rights and health law not only changed the law in significant ways, but also changed lives throughout the nation. In 2007, Gordon was honored with the War Horse Award by the Southern Trial Lawyers Association.
When Congress restricted the ability of Legal Services to handle class actions and other cases for the poor, Gordon joined Michele Johnson in co-founding TJC, which he serves as Executive Director. At present, his advocacy is focused primarily on achieving access to health care for the poor and uninsured.
Gordon has written and lectured extensively, particularly on matters of health law and policy. (See “Unseen Peril: Inadequate Enrollee Grievance Protections in Public Managed Care Programs,” co-written with Michele Johnson and published in the Tennessee Law Review, as well as The TennCare Cuts: Plunging Into the Unknown, written for for Tennessee’s Business, a publication of Middle Tennessee State University’s Business and Economic Research Center.) He has served on numerous state and national boards, including Families USA, the National Juvenile Law Center, National Citizens’ Coalition for Nursing Home Reform, the Nashville Bar Association, and the Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services. He has served on advisory commissions on Medicaid and public health under several Tennessee Governors and has consulted with Governors and legislators in other states. He served as a member of the Tennessee Supreme Court’s Commission on the Future of the Tennessee Judicial System.
A nationally-recognized advocate on health policy, Gordon has received awards for public service and advocacy from numerous organizations, including the American Bar Association, the American Cancer Society, the Tennessee Conference on Social Welfare, the ACLU of Tennessee, the Tennessee Primary Care Association, Families USA Foundation, the National Legal Aid and Defender Association, the Tennessee Bar Association, the Nashville Bar Association and the Metropolitan Nashville Human Relations Commission.
Gordon was named Tennessean of the Year by The Tennessean in 2003. The Tennessean praised Gordon’s work on behalf of low-income Tennesseans: “By making the plight of the least in society more visible, Bonnyman has raised the bar for all Tennesseans. The state now is forced at least to look at how its fiscal and social actions affect the poorest among us before it makes a move.”
During a 1978-1979 sabbatical, Gordon and his wife, Claudia, who is a state court judge, served as Volunteers in Mission for the United Presbyterian Church, working for a human rights organization in the Middle East. During a 1994 sabbatical, they worked under the auspices of the American Volunteers in Democracy program helping to staff a human rights organization that combats hate crimes and racial discrimination in Eastern Europe. They have one son, Houston, who is a medical resident in family medicine in Chicago. Continuing a family tradition, Houston and Gordon get away whenever they can to hike the mountains of East Tennessee.
Gordon is thankful for his family, whose sacrifices and support have sustained him and his work. He is also grateful to his colleagues and to TJC’s inspiring clients. “I get to work each day with colleagues of exceptional compassion, dedication and skill,” Gordon says of his work. “We serve families who, in the midst of poverty, misfortune and injustice, inspire us with their courage and generosity of spirit. Working through the law, we have a chance to make a huge difference in their lives. And by ‘speaking truth to power’ on their behalf — compelling powerful government and corporate institutions to respect the legal rights of the powerless and the poor — TJC is working to fulfill our nation’s pledge of Equal Justice for All. To get to work for such people and ideals is a privilege.”
You can reach Gordon at gbonnyman@tnjustice.org.
MICHELE JOHNSON
Michele Johnson, TJC Attorney- Photo by Jude FerreraMichele is co-founder and managing attorney of the Tennessee Justice Center, where the focus of her nationally-recognized legal work has been children with special health care needs. In that role, she lobbied successfully to extend health care coverage to uninsured children in working families and participated in a landmark case establishing appeal rights for TennCare patients who are denied care by their HMO. As lead counsel, she negotiated a class action settlement requiring comprehensive reform of health care for 665,000 Tennessee children enrolled in TennCare. She also continues to represent scores of individual children.
Michele grew up in Nashville, graduating from Father Ryan High School. There she began her career in public service volunteering at a pre-school for children with special health care needs. Father Ryan’s magazine, Irish Ayes, named Michele one of five alumni “dedicated to improving life for the next generation of their family.”
She attended the University of Tennessee and graduated with Highest Honors 1990. After a year of volunteering at a legal services program through the Jesuit Volunteer Corps, she returned to Knoxville to attend University of Tennessee College of Law. While in law school, she volunteered at a shelter for battered women and led the public interest law association. She also clerked at Legal Services of Middle Tennessee and the National Health Law Program.
Upon graduation from UT, Michele received a grant from the Southern Community Partners, a project of the Lynhurst Foundation, to educate low income families about their children’s legal rights and to help them obtain the medical care the law and their doctors said they should have. In 1996, she left Legal Services to begin the Justice Center with a grant from National Association of Public Interest Law (now Equal Justice Works).
Michele is the winner of the 1999 Child Advocacy Award by the American Bar Association Young Lawyers Division. She was the Lawyer’s Association for Women 2006 Nashville ATHENA Award nominee and Tennessee Alliance for Progress Long Haul award winner. Tennessee Voices for Children has also recognized her work by awarding her a Lifetime Achievement Award for advocacy. Most recently, HER magazine Nashville, published an interview with Michele and the work she does at TJC.
Michele is President of the board of Tennessee Voices for Children (TVC), and chair of the group’s policy committee. She serves on the Board of Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services, and was recently elected to the Nashville Bar Association Board of Directors. Michele has served on the Board of Directors of Tennessee Hemophilia and Bleeding Disorders Foundation, and on the Advisory Board of Family Voices of Tennessee. She is also the past chair of the Christ the King School Board and served on the Parish Pastoral Council at Christ the King Church.
Michele is married to Jeff Hill, an Oak Ridge native. They are parents to three school aged boys. She is an avid runner and spends her free time with her large extended family.
You can reach Michele at mjohnson@tnjustice.org.
Photo Credit: Jude Ferrera
CHRIS COLEMAN
Chris Coleman staff photoChris graduated magna cum laude from Vanderbilt University in 1993. He then attended the University of Virginia where he received a master’s degree in English literature. In 1997-98, Chris served as a VISTA volunteer at the Central Alabama Fair Housing Center in Montgomery, where he conducted research on housing discrimination and organized community education programs on fair housing issues. This experience sparked Chris’s interest in the history of social justice movements in the South, a topic he went on to specialize in as a graduate student in history at Northwestern University. He received his master’s degree in history in 2000.
While attending law school at Northwestern, Chris worked in the Children and Family Justice Center and the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern’s Bluhm Legal Clinic and was associate editor of the Northwestern University Law Review. He was awarded the John Paul Stevens Public Interest Fellowship, the Leonard S. Rubinowitz Fellowship and the Joan Marie Corboy Scholarship. He also studied International Human Rights at Tilburg University in the Netherlands and the Catholic University of Leuven in Belgium. He graduated cum laude and was inducted into the Order of the Coif. Following law school, Chris clerked for the Honorable Joan Humphrey Lefkow on the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.
After returning to Nashville, Chris joined the firm of Lieff, Cabraser, Heimann & Bernstein, where he represented plaintiffs in antitrust and mass torts litigation. He has participated in the Harry Phillips American Inn of Court and the Young Leaders’ Council and has served on the Board of Directors of the Young Lawyers’ Division of the Nashville Bar Association and the Nashville Chapter of the American Constitution Society, for which he served as chapter President in 2008-09. He is co-author of “Social Movements and Social Change Litigation: Synergy in the Montgomery Bus Protest,” published in Law & Social Inquiry in 2005
Chris is married to JuLeigh Petty, a Senior Lecturer at Vanderbilt University’s Center for Medicine, Health and Society. They have two children, Sam and Lucy.
You can reach Chris at ccoleman@tnjustice.org.
KRISTIN WARE
Kristin WareKristin graduated from Brown University in 2004. While at Brown she studied American history and English literature. She was also a member of Brown’s cross country and track teams and served as the cross country team captain during her senior year. After graduation, she returned to her high school in northern Indiana and taught American history and American literature for three years. Teaching cemented Kristin’s interest child advocacy work and motivated her to begin a career in law.
While pursuing her J.D. at the University of Oregon School of Law, Kristin was very involved in the school’s juvenile law programs. She was a member of Juvenile Street Law and a fellow with the Oregon Child Advocacy Project. She spent her first summer in law school working in the chambers of the Honorable Daniel R. Murphy, a juvenile court judge in Oregon. The following summer, she served as an intern at the American Bar Association’s Center on Children and the Law. Kristin was also an executive editor for the Journal of Environmental Law and Litigation. She graduated in 2010 and was inducted into the Order of the Coif.
Kristin was drawn to TJC because of the firm’s commitment to empowering families and ensuring that children get the medical care they need. In addition to her work at TJC, Kristin is currently earning her master’s in education policy from Vanderbilt’s Peabody College of Education and Human Development. During her free time, Kristin enjoys reading, running, and spending time with her lovable dog, Barley.
You cn reach Kristin at kware@tnjustice.org.
CHRISTIE LOCKARD
Christie grew up in the town of Lexington, Tennessee, and joined TJC in the fall of 2006, after moving to Nashville to be closer to friends and family. Christie answers the phone when people call TJC for help. Her kindness in taking their calls sets the tone for TJC’s assistance to families across the state.
Christie has completed courses in Office Education in Jackson, Tennessee and has plans for further educational pursuits over the next year. Her diverse resume is a reflection of her multi-faceted personality: she is active in the local music community and is also a member of a Nashville knitting and arts group.
Christie is looking forward to growing and learning in her position at the Tennessee Justice Center.
You can reach Christie at clockard@tnjustice.org.
JANE BEASLEY
Jane BeasleyJane grew up in a farming community in Kansas. Her interest in social justice began when, as a teenager, she spent part of a summer studying social issues as part of a church youth project. She feels forever grateful for the summer evening she sat in Dr. Martin Luther King’s study listening to Dr. King and the Rev. Ralph Abernathy discuss their desires for a peaceful movement to equality.
She graduated with a B.A. from Kansas Wesleyan University and did her graduate study at Sangamon State University (now named the University of Illinois at Springfield).
Every day, Jane answers the calls of clients who need help with Families First and TennCare. An expert in the complex rules of eligibility for public programs, she also counsels and advocates on behalf of those clients who have lost their benefits. Her compassion is equal to her expertise.
“It’s hard to maintain hope when people are suffering so badly,” said Jane. “But by telling our clients’ stories, maybe we can shame the people in power into doing the right thing.”
Prior to joining TJC in 1998, Jane worked for the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee as the coordinator of the Insurance Counseling and Assistance Program. She assisted clients on issues surrounding Medicare, TennCare, long term health insurance, and Medicare supplement policies.
Jane and her husband of over 40 years, Jim, have lived in Nashville since 1986. Prior to moving to Nashville, they lived in Knoxville with their two daughters. One of their adult daughters lives in Nashville, so Jane gets to spend special time with two grandchildren in Nashville. Two other granchildren live in Pittsburgh, and Jane visits these youngest two whenever possible.
You can reach Jane at jbeasley@tnjustice.org.
JOHN ORZECHOWSKI
John OrzechowskiAs a college student, John had the privilege of taking three trips to Swaziland to volunteer at an orphanage for AIDS-infected/affected children. John lived on the orphanage and spent most of his time tutoring and playing games with the orphanage children. John also assisted other volunteers and health professionals in building and setting up a hospice facility which continues to offer end of life care, which is a great need in the country with the highest HIV rate in the world. In Swaziland, John saw the tragic effects that poverty and the lack of access to medical care can have on people’s health, dignity, and quality of life. This experience led John to consider health care issues and the need to increase access to care for so many individuals—not just in Swaziland.
In 2008, John graduated with honors and received a B.A. in English and Religion from Southeastern University. He was named the most outstanding graduate of the College of Christian Ministries and Religion and received the Southeastern University Award for excellence in both academic achievement and community service. After graduation, John moved to Nashville to attend Vanderbilt University Divinity School, where he focused on ethics and philosophy.
John is excited to work with TJC and to support some of Tennessee’s most vulnerable individuals. He is extremely grateful to serve in a position that is both intellectually challenging and emotionally fulfilling. Outside of work, John likes to ride his bike, watch movies, and go for walks with his wife Erica.

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