Trauger & Tuke
The Southern Turf Building
222 Fourth Avenue North
Nashville, Tennessee 37219
Telephone: 615-256-8585
Telecopier: 615-256-7444
btrauger@tntlaw.net
Legal Assistant: Kathy M. Nicholson
Byron Trauger's practice is concentrated in health care, complex civil litigation, general business matters, government relations, and regulatory agency work. He also has significant business experience, having chaired the board of a $500-million publicly-traded managed care company, and serving on the boards of directors of privately held health care and technology companies. A significant portion of Mr. Trauger's practice involves advising health care entities on strategic issues and representing them before state regulatory agencies. He also represents other business entities in areas in which law and public policy or regulation intersect. Having been a federal prosecutor early in his career, Mr. Trauger is comfortable in the courtroom and frequently represents clients in complex business litigation.
Mr. Trauger is active in numerous civic and charitable organizations. He has chaired a Tennessee gubernatorial campaign and two Nashville mayoral campaigns. He is the chair of the Governor's Books from Birth Foundation and the past chair of the PENCIL Foundation and The Land Trust for Tennessee. He serves on the boards of the Nashville Public Library, Nashville Public Television, the Tennessee State Museum, Martin Methodist College, Nashville Alliance for Public Education and You Have the Power. He has also served on the boards of the Nashville Rotary Club, Historic Nashville, Nashville Children's Theatre, PEACE, and the Tennessee Repertory Theater. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, the Tennessee Bar Foundation, and the Nashville Bar Foundation and has chaired the Campaign for the Legal Aid Society of Middle Tennessee. He is an active Rotarian and United Methodist. He speaks fluent Spanish.
A Rhodes Scholar, Mr. Trauger received his B.A. magna cum laude from Duke University and studied in Lima, Peru as a Rotary Foundation Undergraduate Scholar. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1977 where he was Associate Editor of the Yale Review of Law and Social Action. Mr. Trauger began his legal career as a judicial clerk to the late Hon. Frank W. Wilson, United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Tennessee. He served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee after which he practiced for two years with the Boston, Massachusetts firm of Bingham, Dana & Gould. In 1983 he returned to Tennessee to form the predecessor firm to Trauger & Tuke.
