UT Paralegal Instructors - Knoxville
Dana Hansen Chavis
Dana Hansen Chavis has been an instructor for the UT Paralegal Certificate Program since its inception in 2003.
She is a 1996 cum laude graduate of Albany Law School in New York and has been an Assistant Federal Community Defender in the Capital Habeas Unit of Federal Defender Services of Eastern Tennessee, Inc., since 1998.
In her federal criminal appellate practice she works in conjunction with four paralegals and two investigators.
Chavis has briefed and argued cases before the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the United States Supreme Court.
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Stephen Ferrell
Stephen Ferrell is an instructor for the UT Paralegal Certificate Program's course in criminal law.
Ferrell works for Federal Defender Services of Eastern Tennessee as an Assistant Federal Defender in the capital habeas unit.
Prior to moving to Knoxville, Ferrell spent 11 years as an Assistant State Public Defender in the Office of the Ohio Public Defender in Columbus, Ohio. There, he was a section supervisor in the death penalty division.
Ferrell received a Bachelor of Arts degree from West Virginia University and his juris doctor degree from Ohio State University.
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Tim Housholder
Tim Housholder has taught a substantive course in torts for the UT Paralegal Certificate Program since 2007.
Housholder is an attorney with Gilreath & Associates in Knoxville. He earned a B.A. (cum laude) in 1994 from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and a juris doctor degree in 2000 from Nashville School of Law.
He is a Knoxville native and eighth-generation Tennesseean.
"Research into my lineage led me deep into the history of Knox and surrounding counties back to the founding of our State," Housholder said. "With roots that deep, I guess its no wonder I have always felt such an innate tie to East Tennessee."