Thursday, March 10, 2011

Doug Dimond Coming to DCS as General Counsel

Effective April 10, Doug Dimond will become the new general counsel for the Department of Children's Services.

DCS is place that is already very familiar to him: As a senior counsel in the state Attorney General's office, he has represented DCS in state and federal courts.

Dimond began his professional life in 1980 as a small businessman operating a gourmet foods business in New England.  He graduated magna cum laude from Brandeis University in 1992 and earned his law degree from Vanderbilt University in 1996.

Upon graduation from law school, he joined the Tennessee Attorney General's Office, where he currently serves as Senior Counsel.  In 2005, he received the Office’s highest recognition, the William M. Leech, Jr. Award.

As lead counsel in Brian A., a federal civil rights class action brought on behalf of Tennessee's foster children, he was instrumental in negotiating the original settlement and representing the department in subsequent efforts aimed at improving services to thousands of foster children statewide.

He has also handled scores of appeals in the Tennessee Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.

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