A native East Tennessean, Mr. Taylor was born and raised in Morristown, a small close-knit middle class community. He attended elementary school at Historic Rose School, now the Cultural Arts Center for the Morristown area, and graduated from Morristown West High School.

He attended undergraduate at East Tennessee State University, in Johnson City, where he was a proud member of their Varsity tennis team. He has maintained a long and cherished bond with ETSU, serving on their National Alumni Association Board of Directors, and as the Association’s President for several years. Mr. Taylor entered law school at the University of Memphis and could not have loved a law school or city more. Many of his closest life-long friends and respected peers today, he met while attending law school in Memphis.

A multifaceted legal career that began in the law office of one of East Tennessee's preeminent trial lawyers Gary Brewer, to litigating in the 4th Judicial District Public Defender’s Office serving Jefferson, Cocke, Grainger and Sevier counties, to a managing partner at the regional defense firm of Wimberly & Lawson, Mr. Taylor is regarded today as one the most prepared, accomplished and successful attorneys and litigators in East Tennessee.

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