Nashville, Tennessee – George Phillips, Esq. of Gallatin, TN has been reappointed by Governor Phil Bredesen to the Board of Directors for Tennessee Rehabilitative Initiative in Correction (TRICOR) and was elected by the Board of Directors to be the Board’s Chairman. He has served on TRICOR’s Board of Directors since 2003.

Phillips recently joined the law firm of Bone McAllester Norton PLLC with offices in Hendersonville and Nashville, TN. He concentrates his law practice in the areas of corporate and business law, communications law, labor and employment law, and commercial and business litigation. He has extensive experience in negotiating and facilitating significant commercial transactions, agreements and securities offerings. He is concentrating on addressing the legal needs of business owners so they can focus on growing their business.

Prior to joining Bone McAllester Norton PLLC, Phillips spent ten years as General Counsel and Senior Vice President of a national home shopping network, a public company later acquired by a national communications company. Previously, he worked in the government sector, serving as Counselor to the Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, in the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. from 1993 through 1997 and as the chief of staff to the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division. He also supervised the Office of Consumer Litigation, which represented the Food and Drug Administration, Federal Trade Commission, and Consumer Product Safety Commission and served as Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Immigration Litigation.

Prior to attending law school, Phillips worked in the first Al Gore Senate campaign in 1984 and then served as a special assistant to Senator Gore in 1985. He took a leave of absence after two years of law school to work in Gore’s 1988 Presidential campaign. In that year’s Democratic primary, Phillips served as Gore’s National Delegate Coordinator and then as the State Director for North Carolina, the most populous state won by Gore, and the State Director for Kentucky, where Gore won by the widest margin outside of Tennessee.

Phillips is a member of the Nashville, Sumner County, and Tennessee Bar Associations. He was recently selected to be the General Counsel of the Gallatin Downtown Library Committee that is building a new $6 million library for the City of Gallatin and Sumner County. Phillips received his Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from Duke University with majors in public policy and economics and his Juris Doctor, Order of the Coif, from the University of Tennessee College of Law, where he was also an executive editor of the Tennessee Law Review.

Tennessee Rehabilitative Initiative in Correction was created in 1994 by the Tennessee General Assembly and is governed by a Board of Directors appointed by the Governor. TRICOR provides an environment where offenders learn work ethics and marketable skills which reduce recidivism and assist individuals with a successful reintegration into society. TRICOR’s philosophy is to effectively manage revenue supported industry, agriculture, and service operations for the purpose of employing and training offenders, providing quality products and services for our government and non-profit customers, and assisting in post-release employment. TRICOR manages a financially successful organization without receiving any state appropriated funds.