Jerry H SummersJerry H. Summers is a practicing attorney in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He has served as an assistant district attorney and municipal judge since he began the practice of law in 1966. He has argued cases before the United States and Tennessee Supreme corts and has been involved in numerous landmark decisions in both civil and criminal law. His peers in the legal profession have elected him to membership in the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, American College of Trial Lawyers, International Society of Barristers, American Board of Trial Advocates, American Board of Criminal Lawyers, and he has been selected every year since 1983 as one of the Best Lawyers in America, in both personal injury and criminal law. By an unsolicited vote of the lawyers of Tennessee, he has consistently been selected as one of the "Best 100 Lawyers in Tennessee" and "Mid-South Super Lawyers". Orange Grove Center and the Chattanooga Bar Association have both honored him as philanthropist of the year for his community work. In 2007 he was selected as a Distinguished Alumnus at the Centennial Celebration of Central High School in Chattanooga. In 2014 he was designated as the Distinguished Alumnus at the University of the South at Sewanee, and in 2016 the University of Tennessee at Knoxville designated him Distinguished Alumnus. Read More Read Less