Ronald W. McNutt

I am semi-retired from litigation since 2023. I have been primarily a litigation attorney since I came to Nashville in 1983. I completed a chaplain residency and am pursuing a chaplain fellowship with the U.S. Veterans Affairs Tennessee Valley Healthcare System. I am a ruling elder and supply preacher with the Presbyterian church (USA). I am a steward of the Litigation and Advocacy Committee of the Psychedelic Bar Association and an administrator of the Nashville Psychedelic Society. In 2026, I became a member of the Board of Trustees of Ligare, a Christian Psychedelic Society. For over ten years, I litigated plaintiffs’ civil rights, employment discrimination and constitutional law cases. For over twenty-four years, I worked for the state of Tennessee, primarily doing workers’ compensation litigation for the Bureau of Workers’ Compensation. I have a B. A. degree from Tufts University, in religion, from 1978. I was the executive research editor of the Georgia Law Review during law school.  I am admitted to practice in the courts of Tennessee and the federal district courts here as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. I am experienced in civil rights litigation in Nashville, although most of my litigation work has been with state government. I have never had any disciplinary charges filed during my career and I have had a BV peer review rating from since the 1990s. I worked in the attorney general’s office for three years and have been with the state Bureau of Workers’ Compensation in the field of workers’ compensation law and have served both as a litigation attorney for the Subsequent Injury and Vocational Recovery Fund and as a hearing officer.