 The student who graduates at the top of the class is awarded the Founder's Award and receives a set of the Tennessee Code Annotated.The school's faculty includes practicing lawyers and judges from across the state of Tennessee; formerly including the late former Tennessee Chief Justice Adolpho Birch, and now including former Justice William C. Koch, Jr. of the Tennessee Supreme Court, who became dean of the school in July 2014.In the Fall of 2005, the school moved into its current facility at 4013 Armory Oaks Drive.