Walker Chandler

My first rip to the UK was in 1963 with the Boy Scouts on my way to the World Jamboree in Greece. I have been back many times since. My first major novel was partially set there, as iare parts of Murder in Peachtree City.

I attended the University of Virginia where I studied Foreign Affairs and was President of the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society. . In 1975, immediately after obtaining my J.D. degree and passing the State Bar exam, I hung out a shingle in Zebulon, a small town 50 miles due South of Atlanta. For years I had a general practice. Eventually I was primarily doing domestic relations and criminal law. I semi-retired five years ago.

During my years of practice I handled several intellectual property, transactional and corporate matters, most memorably one involving the acquisition of a patent for a client. I also represented the Libertarian Party and other minor political parties on a score of cases in federal court. The most notable case was one in which I was the lead plaintiff. Objecting to a Georgia law requiring drug testing of candidates for public office, I filed suit in the Northern District court in Atlanta and personally took the case up to the Eleventh Circuit and then to the Supreme Court. On January 14, 1977, I argued the case (Chandler v. Miller (96-126), 520 U.S. 305 (1997)) before the court. I won it in an 8-1 decision.

My other pursuits and interests through the years have included playing and coaching soccer, being a volunteer fireman in Pike County, working with the Boy Scouts, chairing the Zebulon Downtown Development Authority, horseback riding, skiing, travel, renovating buildings, bagpiping, and writing.

In 1997 I published the novel The Evangeline Manuscript. I have also published a book of poetry, The Gift, in 2007. I have several other books “in the works”. I am a member of the Burns Club of Atlanta and the Pike County Kiwanis. I play soccer and ultimate (Frisbee) regularly, and ski. As a candidate of the Libertarian Party, I ran for Lt. Governor of Georgia in 1990 and ’94 and Attorney General in ’98.

In July of 2013 I was granted a patent on a rather unique, multipurpose small boat assembly.. I am now in the stage of getting quotes for production from injection molding companies.

I speak Spanish ( but not fluently) as well as some Swedish and what is left of some Russian I began studying at Virginia.