Charles W. (Chuck) Cagle Nashville Office 424 Church Street, Suite 2500 Nashville, Tennessee 37219 Telephone (615) 259-1366 Fax (615) 259-1389 ccagle@lewisking.com

Knoxville Office One Centre Square 620 Market Street, Fifth Floor Knoxville, TN 37902 Telephone (865) 546-4646    Fax (865) 523-6529

Martindale-Hubbell® AV Peer Review Rated

Education
Tennessee Technological University, B.S., 1978; M.A., 1980
Nashville School of Law, J.D., 1989

Bar Admission
1989 Tennessee
1994 United States Supreme Court
1994 United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
1991 United States District Court, Middle District of Tennessee
1997 United States District Court, Western District of Tennessee
1998 United States District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee

Practice Areas
Education Law
Administrative Law
Government Relations

Charles W. (Chuck) Cagle is a Lewis King shareholder and chairs the Education Law Practice Group for the Nashville and Knoxville offices of Lewis, King, Krieg & Waldrop, P.C.  He oversees the firm’s representation of over seventy (70) boards of education, two private schools, and two private universities in a variety of legal matters including, but not limited to, employment issues related to licensed and classified employees, employee contracts, employee and student discipline, employee and student rights, special education and disability accommodations, first amendment issues, sexual harassment litigation, civil rights matters, desegregation, tort liability, school finance and taxation, and school construction.

Prior to going into private practice, Mr. Cagle served as legal counsel and legislative liaison for the Tennessee School Boards Association and the State Board of Education. In those positions, Mr. Cagle acquired a broad range of experience advising school boards and superintendents on legal matters involving the day-to-day operation of schools, drafting and lobbying legislation, composing board policies and administrative rules and regulations, and defending boards of education in state and federal courts and before committees of the general assembly.  He has developed and presented numerous school board and school employee training seminars and has authored over one hundred bills that were presented to the Tennessee General Assembly that eventually became law.

Mr. Cagle served two terms as president of the Tennessee Council of School Board Attorneys and holds membership in the National School Boards Association’s Council of School Attorneys, the Education Law Association, and the American, Tennessee, and Nashville County Bar Associations.  He was inducted as a Fellow of the Nashville Bar Association Foundation in 2008.

Mr. Cagle is also a registered lobbyist in the State of Tennessee and has represented the interests of superintendents, school boards, related school organizations, municipalities, counties, and for-profit schools and colleges in the Tennessee General Assembly.

Mr. Cagle holds adjunct faculty appointments at Peabody College of Vanderbilt University and Tennessee Technological University where he teaches graduate level classes in Education Law and Public Policy. He currently serves as a board member of the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Center at Tennessee Technological University and as Chairman of the External Board of Visitors for Tennessee Tech’s College of Interdisciplinary Studies and Extended Education.  Mr. Cagle received the Tennessee Technological University Outstanding Alumni Service Award in 2006 and the College of Education’s Distinguished Alumni Award in 2007.