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Nashville School of Law is a smoke free environment. In the fall of 1911, Morton B. Adams, William P. Cooper, Lee Douglas, and Robert Selph Henry, then recent graduates of the law school at Vanderbilt University, opened night law classes at the Y.M.C.A. for the benefit of those unable to attend law classes during the day. The law school has been in operation since that time. It was incorporated under the laws of the State of Tennessee on January 19, 1927, and since that date has conferred the Degree of Doctor of Jurisprudence on over 2,970 graduates. Until November, 1986, the school operated as the Nashville Y.M.C.A. Night Law School leasing space from the Downtown Y.M.C.A. The late James Gilbert Lackey, Jr. (1915-1987) served as Dean of the Law School and instructor in Contracts from 1946 until 1986. Upon his retirement, the faculty elected Honorable Joe C. Loser, Jr., Dean of the school. Judge Loser then retired from the Third Circuit Court of Davidson County after twenty years on the bench to become the fourth Dean in the school's history, accepting the duties and responsibilities of such office on August 23, 1986. On November 24, 1986, the school officially changed its name to Nashville School of Law. In 1990 the school moved to 2934 Sidco Drive. In Fall of 2005 the school moved into its new state of the art facility at 4013 Armory Drive.