John R. Buhrman has been elected to membership on the Duke University Estate Planning Council. This Estate Planning Council is in its 42nd year of existence and customarily sponsors a two-day seminar at the Duke University Law School in October of each year.
Membership on the Council is comprised of practitioners in the estate planning field, including attorneys, accountants, financial advisors and trust officers. Membership varies, but includes some 35 to 40 persons primarily from the southeastern United States.
Mr. Buhrman was born and raised in Chattanooga. He was active in the Boy Scouts growing up and earned the Eagle Scout Award. He attended Baylor High School and graduated from Villanova University in 1996. He received his law degree from the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University in Birmingham in 2000. In Law School, Mr. Buhrman earned the Book Award in his Estate Planning class for the highest grade. Prior to joining his father at Buhrman Law Firm, he worked for two years as a trust administrator for UBS Trust Company, formerly Bradford Trust Company, in Nashville.
He is admitted to the Tennessee Supreme Court, to Georgia Trial and Superior Courts, to the U.S. District Court, and the U.S. Tax Court.
His professional affiliations include the Tennessee Bar Association, he is an Accredited Estate Planner, Georgia Bar Association, Chattanooga Bar Association, Chattanooga Estate Planning Council, National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, and Society of Financial Service Professionals.
He remains active in the Boy Scouts of America, Boy Scouts of America, as assistant scoutmaster for Troop 172 sponsored by St. Jude Catholic Church. He provides services to Legal Aid and is an active pro bono attorney in Chattanooga. He is on the board of the Children's Advocacy Center, and a past Board Member of the Epilepsy Foundation of SE Tennessee. He is a 2006 graduate of Leadership Chattanooga and past Board Member for Orange Grove Center, Siskin Children's Institute Planned Giving Committee, and the Mountain City Club.
Mr. Buhrman is married to Julie Whittington Buhrman, whom he met in Law School. They have two daughters, Cameron and Sadie.
His outside activities include teaching himself to play the banjo.