Linda Nettles Harris is the part-time contractual executive director for Mid-South Community Justice and Mediation Center, Inc. (CJAM). She is a Tennessee licensed attorney, whose part time private practice focuses on mediation, arbitration, and investigations. Linda has mediated civil rights cases, employment discrimination cases, personal injury cases, property dispute cases, divorces, child custody, and other civil law cases. For many years, Linda worked for the U. S. Department of Justice, (USDOJ) where she served as an Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) for the United States Attorney’s Office (USAO) in the Western District of Tennessee (WDTN) in both the civil and criminal divisions. Linda’s litigation background covers a broad range of both civil and criminal matters and she has litigated hundreds of different types of cases ranging from family law cases, medical malpractice cases, employment discrimination cases, tort litigation; statutory and constitutional challenges to governmental programs; Administrative Procedure Act cases, and civil rights cases. As an AUSA, Linda was responsible for investigating and prosecuting cases involving civil rights matters, immigration fraud, bank fraud, mail fraud, tax fraud, money laundering, public corruption, federal program fraud, and drug trafficking crimes.

While working as AUSA, Linda also served as an instructor/facilitator at the USDOJ’s Leadership Institute, an instructor at the National Advocacy Center and was the USAO’s Sexual Harassment Point of Contact (POC) for the WDTN. Linda has extensive practice experience with the United States Circuit Courts of Appeal, having prepared and filed more than 100 briefs and engaged in more than 50 oral arguments in the 6th and 2nd U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal on behalf of the United States and private clients.
Linda successfully tried more than 70 jury trials in federal courts and has practiced in State of Tennessee Chancery, Circuit, Criminal, and General Sessions Courts.

Linda is a member of the Memphis Bar Association, the National Bar Association- Ben F. Jones Chapter and the Association of Women Attorneys. She serves on the Advisory Rules Committee for the U. S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. Linda is a Tennessee Supreme Court Alternative Dispute Resolution Commissioner and she currently chairs the Education Committee. She is a graduate of Leadership Memphis and has served on numerous community organizations boards.