TaCara Harris BA’10, JD’13, was selected to receive the 2025 Early Career Professional Achievement Award from the Vanderbilt Alumni Association Board. The award recognizes alumni, age 40 and younger, for their significant record of career achievement and promise for professional success.
“TaCara is a remarkable lawyer and advocate, and I’m thrilled that her efforts have been recognized by the university,” said Dean Chris Guthrie. “Her impact on the legal profession extends far beyond the courtroom.”
TaCara is the sole Black female partner in the King & Spalding LLP flagship Atlanta office. She is heavily committed to pro bono work, community service and philanthropy, and diversity and inclusion in the legal profession. She serves on King & Spalding’s Diversity Committee, co-chairs the firm’s African American Affinity Group, and mentors minority law students through the Leadership Counsel on Legal Diversity and the Atlanta Bar Association. She was recognized in Georgia as a “Rising Star” in product liability litigation by Super Lawyers and as a “Top 40 Under 40” lawyer for National Black Lawyers.
“I have worked closely with TaCara since she joined King & Spalding in 2016 and have successfully tried three cases with her. She is not only an outstanding trial lawyer, she is a leader and mentor in our firm and in the community,” said Andy Bayman ’89, Co-Chair of King & Spalding’s Product Liability and Mass Torts Practice Group.
