Executive Director

Brad MacLean joined The Tennessee Justice Project in January 2007 after serving 26 years as a member of the law firm of Stites & Harbison, PLLC, where he continues to maintain an “of counsel” relationship. Since 1990, Brad has worked on a number of death penalty cases and continues to litigate post-conviction capital cases in state and federal courts. Brad served on the American Bar Association Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project, Tennessee Assessment Team; and he continues to serve on the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals Rules Advisory Committee. He has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at Vanderbilt Law School since 1993 where he has taught trial advocacy and currently teaches a course on the death penalty. Brad has been awarded the Nashville Bar Association Liberty Bell Award, the Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers’ Lionel Barrett Award for outstanding work in the death penalty arena, and the Legal Service Award from the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. Brad has been named to Best Lawyers in America continuously since 1997 and is a Nashville Bar Foundation Fellow. Brad holds a B.A. in Philosophy from Stanford University, a M.A. in Education from Emory University, and graduated first in his class with a J.D. from Vanderbilt University’s Law School where he received the Founders Medal.

Brad may be reached at (615) 255-7371 or bmaclean@tnjusticeproject.org