Josh Farmer                           Michael Joiner                     George Norton

Three students in the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law at the University of Memphis have been selected to compete in the Moot Court National Championship in Houston, Texas in January 2009.

          Team members Josh Farmer, Michael Joiner, and George Norton will be coached by law professor Barbara Kritchevsky.  Joiner is the U of M law school’s moot court board chief justice, and Norton is the associate chief justice.

          The Houston competition will be sponsored by the University of Houston Law Center and the Blakely Advocacy Institute.  Teams from 16 universities have been invited to participate; among them are Harvard, DePaul, George Mason, and Seton Hall universities, the universities of Miami, Colorado, California-Davis and California-Hastings, and Loyola University-Chicago.

          Farmer, of Bryant, Ark., holds an undergraduate degree from Ouachita Baptist University and an MBA degree from Henderson State University, both in Arkadelphia, Ark.

          Joiner is from Simsboro, La.; he has an undergraduate degree from LeMoyne-Owen College in Memphis and a master’s degree in education from the University of Mississippi.

          Norton, a native of Selmer, Tenn., holds an undergraduate degree from the University of Tennessee at Martin.
November 17, 2008    Contact:  Curt Guenther, 901-678-2843