Trauger & Tuke
The Southern Turf Building
222 Fourth Avenue North
Nashville, Tennessee 37219
Telephone: 615-256-8585
Telecopier: 615-256-7444
rtuke@tntlaw.net
Legal Assistant: Christina A. Currier
Bob Tuke is a partner in the Firm and focuses on corporate and securities, tax-exempt finance, health care, and adoption law. He represents Meharry Medical College and is an Adjunct Professor at Vanderbilt University School of Law, where he teaches “Professional and Ethical Considerations in Corporate Practice.” He is the author of a number of articles on securities, ethics, municipal finance, health care, and adoption law. Mr. Tuke is a member of the Nashville, Tennessee, and American Bar Associations and of the National Association of Bond Lawyers. He is a Fellow of the Tennessee Bar Foundation and the Nashville Bar Foundation. He also is a Fellow and past President of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys. He served on the Tennessee Adoption Law Study Commission and was a principal draftsman of Tennessee’s revised Adoption Code. He is listed in Best Lawyers in America, Super-Lawyers of Tennessee and Who’s Who in American Law.
Mr. Tuke has served as bond counsel, underwriter’s counsel, trustee’s counsel and borrower’s counsel in many tax-exempt finance transactions, and as lender’s and borrower’s counsel in multi-state commercial financings and letter of credit financings. He also has served as lead counsel in numerous merger and acquisition transactions, tender offers, proxy contests, corporate restructurings, registered securities offerings, and private placements. He has litigated several federal court actions challenging state anti-takeover statutes. He has served as counsel to corporate directors and special committees and has advised various enterprises regarding the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Mr. Tuke received his education from the University of Virginia (B.A., with distinction, 1969) and Vanderbilt University (J.D., 1976), where he was Order of the Coif, Editor-in-Chief of the Vanderbilt Law Review, and a Patrick Wilson Merit Scholar. Mr. Tuke was admitted to the Tennessee Bar in 1976 and the United States Supreme Court in 1986. He is also admitted to practice before the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fourth, Sixth and Federal Circuits, and before the United States Court of International Trade.
He is Chairman of CommunityNashville, he serves on the Executive Committee of Miriam’s Promise adoption agency, and he sits on the Metro Nashville CATV Special Committee. He is a member of the Nashville Marine Corps Coordinating Council and is past National Secretary of the Marine Corps Reserve Officers Association. He is a board member of the Virginia Rowing Association. He is a Leadership Nashville alumnus and a member of the Downtown Nashville Rotary Club. He has served in the past as General Counsel to the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce and on the Chamber’s Board of Governors. He is a Lay Eucharistic Minister at St. George’s Episcopal Church.
Mr. Tuke recently completed a term as Chairman of the Tennessee Democratic Party. He is now a candidate for public office. He was an active duty Marine officer from 1969-1973 and served in Vietnam, where he was awarded the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry in combat, among other decorations.
Mr. Tuke is married to Susan C. Tuke and they have two grown children.
