James M Dedman III

James M. Dedman III, a native of Columbia, TN, is a graduate of Warren Wilson College, Middle Tennessee State University, and Vanderbilt University School of Law. After extensive experience in defending and prosecuting criminal cases, he taught theory-based trial advocacy for the National College of District Attorneys for twenty-eight years at the University of Houston Law Center and the University of South Carolina National Advocacy Center. He has won several national awards, and in 2011 the National District Attorneys Association created a national award in his name, the James M. Dedman III Award for Exemplary Career Contributions to the Prosecution Profession.

Dedman was a contributing author to Trial Techniques, 7th Ed., by the National College of District Attorneys and a contributing editor of Analytical Trial Advocacy: A Practical Approach for Prosecutors by the National College of District Attorneys. In 2007 he was a panelist at The Boisterous Seas of Liberty 75th Observance of the Crime of the Century on the Lindbergh Kidnapping held at the historic Hunterdon County, NJ, court house where the Hauptmann trial was held.