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Department
Leadership, Policy and Organizations
Office Location
202 Payne
Mailing Address
414 GPC
230 Appleton Place
Nashville, TN 37203-5721
Direct Phone
615-322-1366
Fax Number
615-343-7094
Charles W. Cagle
Adjunct Instructor in Education and Policy
J.D., Nashville School of Law, 1989
Short Biography
Charles W. (Chuck) Cagle, a partner in Lewis, King, Krieg, & Waldrop, P.C., practices education law statewide from the firm's Nashville, Knoxville, and Sevierville offices. The firm represents over seventy (70) boards of education in a variety of legal matters from student discipline to student rights, special education, religious issues, sexual harassment, general tort liability, and dismissal actions.
Prior to going into private practice, Mr. Cagle served as legal counsel and legislative liaison for the Tennessee School Boards Association and held similar positions with the State Board of Education. Additionally, in 1984, Mr. Cagle was the first full-time legislative liaison employed for the State Department of Education. In these positions, Mr. Cagle acquired a broad range of experience advising school boards and superintendents, drafting and lobbying legislation, writing and defending policy and administrative rules and regulations, and developing and delivering school board and school employee training seminars. As counsel to the Tennessee School Boards Association, Mr. Cagle intervened in several lawsuits to protect the interests of all school boards and school superintendents. Those interventions include suits on home schooling, the rights of school boards and superintendents in dismissing non-tenured teachers, and the confidentiality of student records.
Mr. Cagle served two terms as president of the Tennessee Council of School Board Attorneys, and holds membership in the NSBA Council of School Attorneys, the Education Law Association, and the American, Tennessee, and Nashville Bar Associations. Mr. Cagle is also a registered lobbyist with the Registry of Election Finance in the State of Tennessee and has represented school boards, related school organizations, municipalities, counties, and fidelity insurance companies in a variety of interests. He received the Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts from Tennessee Technological University and the Doctor of Jurisprudence from the Nashville School of Law.