A. Gregory Ramos
A. GREGORY RAMOS (“Gregg”) is past President of the Nashville Bar Association,
having served in that capacity in 2004. He is a member of the law firm North, Pursell & Ramos PLC in Nashville, TN, where he maintains a general civil litigation practice with an emphasis in the areas of personal injury, workers’ compensation, and employment law.
Mr. Ramos received his J.D. degree from Arizona State University College of Law in
1980 and his B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from Arizona State University in 1977. He is a
member of the Nashville, Tennessee, and American Bar Associations as well as the State Bar of
Arizona.
Upon graduation from law school in 1980, Mr. Ramos started his legal career as an
Assistant Prosecutor in Phoenix, AZ, where he tried over forty (40) jury trials in four (4) years.
In 1984, he moved from his home state of Arizona to Nashville, Tennessee so his wife, Sandy,
could pursue a songwriting career in country music. This turned out to be a good move as
Sandy’s songs have been recorded by the Dixie Chicks, Faith Hill, Anne Murray, Kenny Rogers,
Lee Greenwood, Barbara Mandrell, the Forester Sisters, Gene Watson and a host of others.
Sandy and Gregg have been married for thirty-three (33) years and have two children, Melody,
age 28, and David, age 22.
Mr. Ramos is the immediate past Board Chair of Catholic Charities of Tennessee, Inc.
and was named Catholic Charities’ Volunteer of the Year for 2008. He also is the immediate
past president of Conexión Américas, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping Hispanic
families realize their aspirations for social and economic advancement by promoting their
integration into the Middle Tennessee community. In addition, he serves on the Board of
Directors of the United Way of Metropolitan Nashville (Chair of the HR Committee) and
on the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Justice Center, whose mission is to advocate on
behalf of poor Tennesseans. Mr. Ramos serves as well as a member of the Advisory Board of
the American Constitution Society, an organization dedicated to ensuring that our country’s
founding values of human dignity, individual rights and liberties, genuine equality and access to
justice enjoy their rightful, central place in American law. Mr. Ramos also is a member of the
Rotary Club of Nashville and was in the 33rd class of Leadership Nashville (Class of 2009).
Governor Phil Bredesen appointed Mr. Ramos in 2006 to serve on the Tennessee
Workers’ Compensation Advisory Council, a position in which he still serves. He also is a past
member of the Tennessee Supreme Court’s Committee on Public Trust and Confidence in the
Courts. Mr. Ramos recently was appointed to serve a three-year term on the Tennessee Supreme
Court’s new Access to Justice Commission. He currently serves as well on the Tennessee
Education Lottery’s Advisory Council on Minority Business Participation.
In early January 2009, Mr. Ramos was named as the “2008 Nashvillian of the Year”
by Nashville Scene newspaper. The full article can be found here.
In the July 17, 2009 edition of the Nashville Business Journal, Mr. Ramos was included
in the “Best of the Bar, 2009”, and in October 2009, Mr. Ramos was honored with the “Good
Guys” award from the Nashville Women’s Political Caucus. On December 28, 2009, the
Tennessean newspaper in Middle Tennessee included Mr. Ramos in its front page article listing
the top 25 “Tennessee Political Movers.” Finally, in both 2010 and 2011, Mr. Ramos has been
featured in the NashvillePost’s “In Charge” edition of Nashville’s most prominent leaders.
