Thomas J. Dement, II is a Murfreesboro, Tennessee native. He pledged the Tennessee Beta chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon at Middle Tennessee State University in the fall of 1987 and was initiated in the spring of 1988. As an undergraduate, he served his chapter as risk manager, recruitment chairman and Eminent Preceptor, a role he still continues to fill in Province Iota and throughout the Realm. He also served in many leadership positions with the Interfraternity Council, including president. On a national level, he was appointed to serve as an undergraduate member of the first permanent committee on risk management. Tom earned Bachelor of Science and Master of Business Administration degrees from Middle Tennessee State University. Tom then pursued a law degree from the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama.

After law school, Tom served for one year as a judicial law clerk in the 16th Judicial District of Tennessee in Murfreesboro. He currently is a partner with Leitner, Williams, Dooley & Napolitan, PLLC, a regional law firm with six offices throughout the Southeast. Tom’s areas of practice include General Civil Litigation, Intellectual Property Litigation, Insurance Defense, Employment Law, Corporate and Commercial Litigation and Corporate and Business Transactions. During his legal career he has successfully handled hundreds of cases throughout middle Tennessee.

Tom’s is quite prevalent in Sigma Alpha Epsilon nationally. Most notably, Tom serves as the Eminent Supreme Deputy Archon for the National Fraternity. He was initially elected to the Supreme Council in 2009. He is a past Province Iota Archon, a position he held from 1998-2007, and was the Chairman of the Council of Province Archons from 2004-2007. He is also a past Chairman of the Permanent Committee on the Ritual and the Permanent Committee on Fraternity Laws. He has served on the Fraternity’s Leadership School faculty on numerous occasions. Tom has served as chapter adviser for several groups in Province Iota and has held positions of leadership with the Tennessee Beta Alumni Association and Tennessee Beta Housing Corporation.

A well-known Fraternity ritualist, Tom has participated in numerous chapter installations over the past several years and conducted many special initiations throughout the Realm. He also served as Parliamentarian of the past five Fraternity Conventions. Tom is a Bunting Member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Foundation. He is a two-time recipient of the Order of the Lion and received the Merit Key in 2005 and the Order of Minerva in 2009.

Tom currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife, Helen, and their two children, Alexandra and Thomas III.

Please join the Alumni Association in congratulating Tom Dement on his success and his diligent service to the Fraternity both locally and nationally.

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