The first issue of the Tennessee Law Review was published in 1922 with the financial support of prominent Knoxville lawyer and member of the UT Board of Trustees, T. Asbury Wright. Among the six editors of the inaugural issue was future US Congressman Howard H. Baker, class of 1924. The purpose of the Review was to enable the College of Law to inform Tennessee lawyers about research being done at UT and elsewhere by students, faculty, and members of the profession. The Tennessee Law Review was the official publication of the Tennessee Bar Association from 1938 to 1953, when the Tennessee Bar Association instituted its own publication.