CATHERINE E. SHUCK is a Senior Associate with the Knoxville, Tennessee office of the Firm, which she joined in September 2009. Her practice involves general civil defense litigation and handling special assignments. Cathy received her B.A. from Northwestern University and her J.D. from Boalt Hall at the University of California, Berkeley where she was a member of the Order of the Coif. While at Boalt Hall she was the Senior Articles Editor for the Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law. Her Comment written for the journal, That's It, I Quit: Constructive Discharge After Ellerth, was cited by the United States Supreme Court in 2004. Following law school she served as a law clerk to Justice E. Riley Anderson of the Tennessee Supreme Court and to Judge William A. Fletcher of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Prior to attending law school, Cathy worked for several years in the human resources field. Cathy has been admitted to practice in the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Middle Districts of Tennessee as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit. Cathy is the author of the article, Bargaining Power: Understanding the Rights of Public Sector Workers in Tennessee, published in the Tennessee Bar Journal, May 2011, Vol. 47, No. 5. She is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Tennessee College of Law and is a member of the Knoxville and Tennessee Bar Associations and the East Tennessee Lawyers Association for Women.
