GARY W. WRIGHT is Regional Managing Member of Wimberly Lawson Seale Wright & Daves, PLLC in the Knoxville, Tennessee office. He practices in the areas of labor and employment law, with a particular emphasis on NLRB work, collective bargaining, contract administration, and arbitration law. He has served on the Executive Council of the Tennessee Bar Association, Labor Law Section, and is a member of the Labor and Employment Law Sections of the Tennessee Bar Association and the American Bar Association. He is a Tennessee Supreme Court Approved Mediator and has received his Certification in Alternative Dispute Resolution from Cornell University, School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Prior to entering private practice, Gary was a federal prosecutor for the National Labor Relations Board working in its Peoria and Atlanta Regions. He has also served as an instructor of business law at Virginia Tech and Carson Newman College and is currently teaching in the University of Tennessee Professional Development Program. Gary received his BS degree, cum laude in 1974 and his J.D. degree in 1977, both from the University of Tennessee.