Bryan P. Tyson
Bryan is an associate at Strickland Brockington Lewis LLP. He has extensive experience in areas related to election law and government. Prior to admission to the bar, he worked in the Georgia General Assembly for seven years, most recently with the office of the minority leader of the Georgia House of Representatives. Following his work in the Georgia General Assembly, Bryan served as a policy aide to Third District Congressman Lynn Westmoreland in Washington, D.C.
Bryan's work in the General Assembly included analysis of the large number of bills considered by the legislature each year. While serving as a policy aide to Congressman Westmoreland, Bryan worked extensively with political scientists and members of Congress on issues surrounding the federal legislation to renew certain provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, including drafting amendments offered on the floor as the renewal bill moved through the legislative process.
He earned his J.D. magna cum laude from the Oak Brook College of Law. While in law school, Bryan was active in the field of legislative redistricting for the state of Georgia. He has drawn hundreds of maps during the 2000 cycle, testified as an expert witness on redistricting software and drafted a number of submissions made to the three-judge federal court that found Georgia's legislative districts unconstitutional in Larios v. Cox. In 2005, Bryan was profiled in Roll Call for his role in the redrawing of Georgia's congressional districts in 2005.
Bryan is a member of the Georgia and California bars, the American Bar Association, the Atlanta Bar Association, and the Federalist Society. In addition to election law and redistricting, Bryan's practice also includes charter schools, along with legislative, regulatory and political policy matters.
Bryan and his wife, Shelley, make their home in Marietta, Georgia, where they are involved in volunteer work and teach a youth Sunday School class at their church.