Givhan & Spainhour, P.S.C.

Attorneys

History

John Spainhour is an honors graduate of the Ashville School, the University of the South, and Vanderbilt Law School. He has practiced law in Shepherdsville since 1976. He is a Phi Beta Kappa and honors graduate at the University of the South and served as Director of the Student Legal Aid Society at Vanderbilt.

He has held professional and public offices as City Attorney for Hunters Hollow, Assistant Bullitt County Attorney and Chief Assistant Bullitt County Attorney. He also served as a Bullitt County Public Defender and Chief Public Defender.

He is a member of the Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisville, Bullitt County (President, 2001-2002) and American Bar Associations and the Kentucky Justice Association (Member, Board of Governors, 1986 to present) and the Kentucky Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He is a life fellow of the Kentucy Bar Foundation.

He maintains an active personal injury, real estate, estate planning, Social Security, banking, corporate law and general trial and appellate practice.

In addition to his professional work he has served on a number of charitable and educational boards. He was a member and board chair of the Meredith-Dunn School and Board member of the Legal Aid Society of Louisville. He was House Corporation president and currently serves as Chapter Advisor for Delta Tau Delta fraternity at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. He also has acted as attorney for various churches; the Bullitt County Public Libraries and other community groups.

His practice recently embraced a number of high profile cases including Victor's Little Secret v. Victoria's Secret in the U.S. Supreme Court and Commonwealth of Kentucky v. David 'Bucky' Brooks where he obtained a dismissal of capital murder charges.

He successfully appeared as amicus curiae in the Supreme Court of Kentucky on three occasions and has been involved in the successful presentation of a number of precedent making appellate decisions.

To read some of our published appellate decidions, click our links to the Kentucky Supreme Court and Kentucky Court of Appeals.