Hunter Branstetter has joined the law firm as an associate in its litigation practice group.

“We are very happy to welcome Hunter to the firm,” said member Bill Harbison. “He is a talented young attorney from a family with deep roots in the Nashville legal community. We very much look forward to working with him.”

Before joining Sherrard, Branstetter was a law clerk to Judge Bernice Donald of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He earned his law degree in 2013 at Vanderbilt University Law School, where he was development editor of the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law, content editor of the Obiter Dictum and president of the American Constitution Society, among other things. He earned an English degree in 2009 from Washington and Lee University and worked as an EMT with the Davidson County Rescue Squad before going to law school.