Chattanooga attorney Christopher H. Steger has been appointed assistant examiner to the state Board of Law Examiners, which governs the testing and admission of prospective lawyers in Tennessee. Steger, of the Miller & Martin firm in Nashville, is one of 12 assistant examiners who help write and grade essay questions on the state Bar Examination administered in February and July.
Attorney Marlene Eskind Moses, the first woman to serve as president of the board, said 247 law school graduates took the two-day Bar Examination in February, with 171 passing. During 2002, 712 law school graduates took the exam, consisting of multiple choice and essay questions, with a 67 percent pass rate.
In January, the board’s newest member, W. Scott McGinness, Jr., of Chattanooga, was appointed by the Tennessee Supreme Court to succeed Lewis Hagood, who retired. McGinness, also an attorney with Miller & Martin, has served as an assistant examiner since 1979. Justice E. Riley Anderson of Knoxville serves as Supreme Court liaison to the board.