Laurence Pendleton serves as the General Counsel and Secretary to the Board of Trustees at Tennessee State University. Prior to joining TSU, he served in the Office of the General Counsel for the Tennessee Board of Regents, where he acted as lead counsel to several institutions in the TBR system. He also served for several years in the Office of General Counsel for the Colorado State University System, worked as a litigation attorney in the Denver office of Holme, Roberts and Owen (now merged with and known as Bryan Cave Leighton and Paisner), and was an adjunct faculty member at the University of Denver Law School. He received his undergraduate degree in Business Administration from the University of Kansas and was awarded his Jurist Doctorate from the University of Iowa.