EXPERIENCE

As an AUSA in the Eastern District of Tennessee, Mr. Humble personally prosecuted numerous high profile cases, focusing on public corruption (involving federal, state, and local government officials, including law enforcement officers violating individual rights, taking bribes, or committing fraud, for example) and other white collar crime (for example bank fraud and mortgage fraud). In addition, he tried and prosecuted innumerable other federal offenses, involving drugs, theft, crimes against the person, regulatory offenses (for example, Lacey Act cases protecting wildlife), and other offenses. From 1997-2002, he supervised the Chattanooga Branch Office and white collar criminal prosecutions.

Throughout his career Mr. Humble has been involved in hundreds of grand jury investigations. As an Assistant United States Attorney, he was routinely involved in criminal investigations conducted by almost all federal agencies, especially the FBI, IRS, Secret Service, ATF, Customs, the Postal Inspection Service, NCIS, Army CID, the U.S. Bankruptcy Trustee, and inspectors general offices with numerous federal agencies, including, among others, NASA and the Department of Agriculture. In addition, federal agents regularly submitted search warrants for review and for his approval before submission to the court. Since leaving the U.S. Attorney's Office, he has advised clients on how successfully to handle federal grand jury investigations. It is much better for a client to avoid an indictment, than to be indicted and get acquitted at trial. The earlier a client obtains representation in the grand jury and criminal process, the better outcome he or she is more likely to achieve. The client is also better able to avoid process crime charges, such as obstruction of justice and perjury.

Since leaving the U.S. Attorney's Office, Mr. Humble has been involved in numerous and varied cases and federal criminal investigations. He recently filed a civil case on behalf of over ten plaintiffs in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee at Nashville. He has expanded his practice to include estate planning. He says that the older he has gotten, the more interested he is in the subject! He tried a month long complex, multi-defendant federal criminal trial in Chattanooga. He has also tried cases in Chancery Court and Juvenile Court. In representing the accused he has been very successful in getting charges dismissed, diversion and other favorable outcomes for his clients.

OTHER JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EXPERIENCE

Mr. Humble was an evaluator for the U.S. Department of Justice Evaluation and Review Program (EARS). He evaluated U.S. Attorney's Offices in New Orleans, LA; San Diego, CA: Buffalo, NY; Columbia, SC; San Antonio, Texas and Albuquerque, NM. The purpose of the program was to evaluate the offices' efficiency as prosecution offices, and their compliance with Department of Justice policies. Mr. Humble focused on branch offices in general and fraud sections in particular.

Before becoming moving back to Chattanooga in 1987, he was an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia under Joe diGenova, where he tried numerous cases involving property offenses and crimes against the person.

He was a trial attorney for six years in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He tried three criminal Sherman Act antitrust cases and conducted civil merger investigations in various industries. He was the lead attorney for the United States in an antitrust prosecution of electrical contractors for a Sherman Act violation in connection with the Moccasin Bend Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Mr. Humble has had federal jury trials in the Middle (Nashville) and Western Districts of Tennessee (Memphis), as well as in the District of South Carolina (in both Columbia and Greenville) and the Western District of Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh). He was appointed a Special Assistant United States Attorney in several other federal judicial districts, including the Middle District of Tennessee in Nashville..

APPELLATE EXPERIENCE

Mr. Humble has extensive appellate experience in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. He has briefed more than a hundred cases (more likely hundreds) and argued numerous cases before the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

PUBLICATIONS

In addition, Mr. Humble has written several scholarly law review articles. He has been cited by various federal appellate and district courts, including the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in U.S. v. Oliver North, 910 F.2d 843, 857 (D.C. Cir. 1990). His published work includes Nonevidentiary Use of Compelled Testimony, 66 Tex. L. Rev. 351 (1987); Evidentiary Admissions of Defense Counsel, 24 Am. Cr. L. Rev. 93 (Georgetown 1986); Dual Representation at the Grand Jury, 10 Mem. St. L. Rev. 525 (1980). 

TEACHING TRIAL ADVOCACY

Mr. Humble has devoted a large amount of time to teaching trial Advocacy. He taught many times at the Attorney General's Advocacy Institute in Washington, D.C. and Columbia, South Carolina. These courses typically lasted a week. He taught trial advocacy skills to both new and experienced prosecutors. Mr. Humble has taught trial advocacy courses at the University of Tennessee Law School (Knoxville). He has also coached high school students from Central, Hixson, and Soddy Daisy High Schools in mock trial competitions sponsored by the Chattanooga Bar Association's Young Lawyer Division. His Central and Hixson High School teams won four Hamilton County championships and went to Nashville to compete for the State Championship. Two of his Central students won the best advocate awards at the state competition. That award is named after one of his Central students, The Robert Horton Campbell Award for best advocate in Finals. He continues to work with High School Mock trial as judge and scorer.

LEISURE

Gary enjoys spending his leisure time with grand daughters Scarlett and Oakley, reading history and Doc Savage adventures. He enjoys motorcycle and bicycle riding. He speaks almost fluent German, some Italian and French. He also enjoys walking his dog.

The Branch Manager / Law Dog Emeritus

Keeta Humble (RIP)

(Gary's German Shepherd)