Damon Keith Griffin, Sr, is a Senior Counsel- Global Compliance with International Paper in Memphis, Tennessee. He is a proud honors graduate of Morehouse College (Atlanta, GA) and University Tennessee College of Law (Knoxville, TN). Named after long-time United States Sixth Circuit Appellate Court Judge Damon Keith, Damon became licensed to practice law in 2004 in the State of Tennessee.

Damon has served as a civil litigator, Assistant District Attorney, Assistant County Attorney, Chief Ethics Officer, Assistant U.S. Attorney- Department of Justice over the last (17) years. For the last (3) years, he has served as Senior Counsel Global Corporate Compliance with FedEx and International Paper. As a former State and Federal Prosecutor, he has been asked to serve as a legal commentator on national television networks discussing hot investigations and criminal court cases in the news.

He has served on numerous national panels addressing Corporate Compliance and Ethics topics and Department of Justice hot topics and pitfalls for companies. He has led white collar grand jury investigations and has worked with all federal agencies involving bank fraud, wire fraud and mail fraud.