Laura Kidwell

Laura Kidwell, legal consultant with UT-MTAS, has received the Justice Joseph W. Henry Award for Outstanding Legal Writing from the Tennessee Bar Association. Prior to joining MTAS as a legal consultant, Kidwell spent 18 years with the Tennessee Attorney General’s office, including serving nearly 14 years as a senior counsel and nearly five as an assistant solicitor general. She also served as an adjunct professor of law at the Wake Forest University School of Law, where Kidwell earned her law degree. Kidwell holds a bachelor’s degree from Furman University in Greenville, S.C.