CHARLES D. COLE
E-mail Address: ccole@sturgillturner.com
AREAS OF PRACTICE: Appellate Practice, Business and Corporate Law, Business Tort Litigation, Civil Litigation, Constitutional Law and Civil Rights, Employment and Labor Law, Public Entity and Government Defense .
EDUCATION: University of Kentucky (B.A., Finance with Departmental Honors, 1990); University of Louisville (M.B.A., 1995); University of Kentucky (J.D. 1997).
BAR ADMISSION: Kentucky 1997; U.S. District Courts, Eastern District 1999; U.S. District Court Western District of Kentucky 2002; U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit 1999; U. S. Supreme Court 2004.
BAR ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIP: Kentucky Bar Association (KBA), Chair, Local Government Law Section; Fayette County Bar Association (FCBA); Fayette County Bar Foundation, Director and Founding Fellow.
BACKGROUND: Charley was born and raised in Harlan County, Kentucky. He graduated from Harlan Independent High School where he played football. He attended the University of Kentucky and played on the rugby team.
After graduating from the Unviersity of Kentucky, Charley accepted a management position with Liberty National Bank in Louisville, Kentucky,and began working on his M.B.A. at the University of Louisville. He returned to Lexington in 1994 to attend the University of Kentucky College of Law. In 1995 he received his M.B.A. from the University of Louisville, and in 1997 earned his Juris Doctorate from the University of Kentucky and began practicing law in Lexington. Charley has been included in "Kentucky's Million-Dollar Opening Statements--2008" (Trial Law, Inc., Louisville, KY)."
