About McKenna Louise
McKenna Louise Cox constructed a legal career that moves from public service to private practice. She trained as a recommend in law school and has combined courtroom work with mediation and clinic coordination across extra than 20 years.
Cox earned her bachelor’s degree in English, Spanish and Latin American studies from Wofford College in 1999. She persisted her studies on the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, receiving a grasp’s in Romance languages and literature in 2002. She completed her legal training on the University of Tennessee College of Law, taking her J.D. in 2005 after targeting advocacy and law.
Her early legal work started at Legal Aid of East Tennessee, where she served as a staff lawyer beginning in 2005. That knowledge kept her near clients who relied on legal offerings for family and immigration matters. She moved into private practice over the following years, turning into a partner and proprietor at Cox and Lee, PLLC in 2012. Two years later she opened her own firm, serving as proprietor and managing lawyer of The Cox Firm from 2014 onward.
Across her profession she has maintained lively involvement in expert organizations. She holds memberships within the Tennessee Bar Association and the LGBT Bar Association and has been part of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the Federal Bar Association’s Immigration Section since 2013. She coordinates Lawyers Helping People legal clinics, a position she began in 2009. In 2014 she served temporarily as vice president of the Washington County Bar Association.
Cox is licensed to practice in Tennessee, and she holds admissions to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the Federal Circuit. She is likewise a Rule 31 Listed Family Mediator under the Tennessee highest court, which allows her to manage court-referred family mediation things.
Her work spans direct client representation, mediation and appellate filings in federal circuits when cases require it. She keeps an office listing with Herndon, Coleman, Brading and McKee, LLC along her practice. Her recent practice emphasizes family and immigration matters.
