5/4/20 UPDATE! Thanks to everyone who contributed to George Scoville’s haircut fund! George raised $1,100 to benefit the Nashville Predators Foundation empowered by Smile Direct Club. Now, rather than live streaming his haircut on Facebook, WSMV’s Big Joe on the Go will be carrying the event Wednesday (May 6) during his Joe on the Go segments at 5:45 am; 6:15 am and 6:45 am. Be sure to tune in — and feel free to contribute!
As you can see, the corona-curls are starting to swallow my ears and frighten the neighborhood children, and I needed a haircut long before the first shelter-in-place order was a twinkle in any elected official’s eye. Unfortunately, Governor Bill Lee’s executive order this week effectively canceled my haircut appointment. Luckily, however, I also bought a set of hair clippers last weekend.
I haven’t shaved my head in probably 15 years, not since I worked in the restaurant business. As a lawyer, I now work in a culturally conservative profession in which radical changes to a person’s physical appearance can give rise to a certain amount of skeptical side-eye—so I have some misgivings about shaving my head again. But I also think there’s an opportunity to do some good here.
If I can raise $1,000 for the Nashville Predators Foundation empowered by Smile Direct Club, then I will not only shave my head, but I’ll stream it live on Facebook. I kicked things off with my own $25 donation and as of Friday morning I have raised over $800 for this worthy cause. Who’s with me?!
About Post Author
George Scoville is an associate in Lewis Thomason’s Nashville office where he primarily practices in the firm’s product liability group. Before joining the firm, George began his legal career as a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Sheryl H. Lipman in the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee in Memphis.
George earned his law degree and business law certificate, with honors, from the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law, where he received three merit-based scholarships, earned recognition for the highest grades in Federal Discrimination Law and Family Law, and won numerous awards for his scholarship and contributions to the law school community. He served as the editor-in-chief of The University of Memphis Law Review, a Student Justice on the Honor Council, and a Bar Governor in the Student Bar Association. George also worked as a graduate research assistant to Bredesen Professor of Law and constitutional and election law expert Steven J. Mulroy, as an administrative law judge at the Memphis Housing Authority, and a Judicial Intern to Senior United States District Judge Jon P. McCalla.
Before law school, George earned undergraduate degrees in philosophy and political science from Belmont University in 2009, and a Master of Public Policy from the American University School of Public Affairs in Washington, D.C., in 2011, where his practicum focused on a United States Department of Homeland Security pilot program on information sharing between federal and state law enforcement. While living in Washington, George worked as a policy analyst for a global trade association of information technology companies, a new media strategist for a think tank, and a channel lead for a cutting-edge political and industry communications consulting firm before founding his own strategic communications practice.
In addition to his law practice, George is an Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Belmont University and the treasurer of the Tennesseans for Sensible Election Laws political action committee. He and his wife Emily are proud dog rescuers and rabid Nashville Predators season ticket holders.
