Dawn Coppock, Attorney at Law, is a Sole Practitioner based in Strawberry Plains, Tennessee. Her practice is limited to adoption law, including representation of both birth parents and adoptive parents in independent, agency, interstate, state agency, international, and relative adoptions, adoption record searches, contested adoptions, adoption appeals, and adoption subsidy disputes. Ms. Coppock is also a certified Juvenile-Child Welfare Specialist and a Tennessee Rule 31 mediator.
Ms. Coppock received her J.D. from the Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary, in Williamsburg, Virginia, and her B.S. from Carson-Newman College, in Jefferson City, Tennessee.
Ms. Coppock is a fellow of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys and a member of the Family Law Section and the Adoption Committee of the American Bar Association (ABA).
Ms. Coppock is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell and has twice been listed among the best lawyers in Tennessee by Tennessee Business magazine. In 2004, she was named an Angel in Adoption by the U.S. Congressional Coalition on Adoption. In 2010, she received the Bill Williams Service Award for service to Tennessee children awaiting adoption.
A member of the Knoxville, Sevier County and Tennessee bars, Ms. Coppock is a frequent media source and speaker at CLE and public information seminars on the subject of adoption.
Author of:
Coppock on Tennessee Adoption Law, 7th Edition
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