A. GREGORY RAMOS (Gregg) is past President of the Nashville Bar Association, having served in that capacity in 2004.  He is a member of the law firm North, Pursell, Ramos & Jameson PLC in Nashville, TN, where he maintains a general civil litigation practice with an emphasis in the areas of personal injury, employment law and workers' compensation.  Mr. Ramos received his J.D. degree from Arizona State University College of Law in 1980 and his B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from Arizona State University in 1977. He is a member of the Nashville, Tennessee, and American Bar Associations as well as the State Bar of Arizona.

Upon graduation from law school in 1980, Mr. Ramos started his legal career as an Assistant Prosecutor in Phoenix, AZ, where he tried over forty (40) jury trials in four (4) years.  In 1984, he moved from his home state of Arizona to Nashville, Tennessee so his wife, Sandy, could pursue a songwriting career in country music. This turned out to be a good move as Sandy's songs have been recorded by the Dixie Chicks, Faith Hill, Anne Murray, Kenny Rogers, Lee Greenwood, Barbara Mandrell, the Forester Sisters, Gene Watson and a host of others. Sandy and Gregg have been married for thirty-two (32) years and have two children, Melody, age 27, and David, age 21.   

Mr. Ramos is the immediate past president of Catholic Charities of Tennessee, Inc. and was named as Catholic Charities' Volunteer of the Year for 2008.  He also is the immediate past president of Conexion Americas, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping Hispanic families realize their aspirations for social and economic advancement by promoting their integration into the Middle Tennessee community.  In addition, he currently serves on the Board of Directors of the United Way of Metropolitan Nashville (Chair of the HR Committee) and on the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Justice Center, whose mission is to advocate on behalf of poor Tennesseans. Mr. Ramos serves as well as a member of the Advisory Board of the American Constitution Society, an organization dedicated to ensuring that our country's founding values of human dignity, individual rights and liberties, genuine equality and access to justice enjoy their rightful, central place in American law. Mr. Ramos also is a member of the Rotary Club of Nashville and was in the 33^rd class of Leadership Nashville (Class of 2009). 

Governor Bredesen appointed Mr. Ramos in 2006 to serve on the Tennessee Workers' Compensation Advisory Council, a position in which he still serves.  He also is a past member of the Tennessee Supreme Court's Committee on Public Trust and Confidence in the Courts. Mr. Ramos recently was appointed to serve a three-year term on the Tennessee Supreme Court's new Access to Justice Commission.  He currently serves as well on the Tennessee Education Lottery's Advisory Council on Minority Business Participation. 

In the July 17, 2009 edition of the Nashville Business Journal, Mr. Ramos was included in the publication's Best of the Bar, 2009, which honors the top lawyers in Nashville, TN.  Mr. Ramos also was named as the 2008 Nashvillian of the Year by Nashville Scene newspaper.  The full article can be found at the following link: http://www.nashvillescene.com/2009-01-08/news/meet-attorney-gregg-ramos-the-scene-s-2008-nashvillian-of-the-year/1.  Finally, in October of 2009, Mr. Ramos was one of four men honored with a Good Guys award from the Nashville Women's Political Caucus.