Kenneth Quillen is a criminal lawyer who has won jury trials in state and federal court.
Quillen has tried many cases from simple assault to first degree murder. Quillen graduated Vanderbilt University and attended the Nashville School of Law, from 1993 to 2014, and worked in a law office with his father Dale Quillen, and with Mike Flanagan.
Before that he was a gaffer (lighting guy) on music videos and commercials and worked on a few TV movies. Quillen worked on “Living Proof,” a TV movie about Hank Williams, Jr. with John Boy Walton playing Hank. The work was not glamorous. There was a lot of slogging four-ought welding cable through the mud and busting knuckles under big trucks. Exhausted after that experience, Quillen turned down the Coen Brothers first movie, “Blood Simple.” At the time it seemed like a good career choice.
The guy holding the fiddle won a Best Picture Oscar for Silence of the Lambs. The woman to his left won one for Terms of Endearment. Quillen is on the far right, midway back sporting a moustache.
Quillen went in another direction. .
