About Ram

Ram Uppuluri is an attorney licensed in Tennessee and the District of Columbia. A 1979 graduate of Oak Ridge High School, he moved back to Oak Ridge in 2022 to take care of his mom, after living in Washington, DC, for the past 25 years. While in DC, he served in the Clinton Administration at the US Department of Energy, followed by a 20-year career in local DC government and in the local nonprofit sector.

Ram grew up taking Red Cross swimming lessons at the Oak Ridge Municipal Swimming Pool and went all the way from Beginner to Water Safety Instructor. Following his graduation from Oak Ridge High School he attended Princeton University, where he majored in English Literature. He began his career as a newspaper reporter, first for the Oak Ridger newspaper, in Oak Ridge, TN, and then at The Tennessean in Nashville, TN, where he covered the police beat, and general assignment reporting.

He later worked as a legislative aide to Congressman Jim Cooper (D-TN) and for Senator Al Gore, Jr. (D-TN) as an energy and environmental policy advisor. He received his JD from Vanderbilt University School of Law in 1991. 

Ram is a member of the Oak Ridge Breakfast Rotary Club; serves on the boards of the Oak Ridge Fund for Achieving Community Excellence (ORFACE) (an affiliate fund of the East Tennessee Foundation) and CASA of the Tennessee Heartland; is a community representative on the Oak Ridge Sister City Support Organization; and is a member of the Scarboro 85 Monument Committee, which was established to recognize the historic desegregation of Oak Ridge High School and Robertsville Middle School in 1955.