W. Sidney Vinson, III: Education, Bar Admissions and Experience

  • Graduate, Houston County High School, 1967

  • Austin Peay State University (B.S.), 1971

  • University of Tennessee (Doctor of Jurisprudence), 1974

Admitted

  •  Tennessee Bar, 1975

Associations

  • Tennessee Bar Association

  • American Bar Association

  • Tennessee General Sessions Judges Conference

  • Tennessee Municipal Judges Conference

  • Tennessee Municipal Attorneys Association

Experience

  • Houston County Chancery Court Clerk & Master: 5 years

  • Licensed to practice law in Tennessee: 1975

  • Private Practice, Erin, TN: 1975-present

  • General Sessions & Juvenile Judge Houston County, Tennessee 1990-2022

  • Municipal Judge Cumberland City, Present

  • City Attorney, City of Tennessee Ridge, 1975-Present

  • County Attorney, Houston County, 1980-1990

  • County Attorney, Stewart County, 2000-2005

  •  Legal Counsel for Industrial Development Board of Stewart County, 2000-2005

  • Legal Counsel for Stewart-Houston Industrial Park Board, Houston-Stewart Development Commission, and the Industrial Development Board of Stewart-Houston Counties, Present

Affiliations
Member: Coordinated School Health Advisory Council
Vice President: Erin Rotary Foundation, Inc.
Member and Past President: Erin Rotary Club
Past President: Houston County Lions Club
Member: Masons
Member and Vice-Chairman of Church Council Finance Committee: Erin United Methodist Church