Tennessee head coach Butch Jones during the Vols' game against Alabama at Bryant-Denny Stadium in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2015. (MICHAEL PATRICK/NEWS SENTINEL)

By MJ Slaby of the Knoxville News Sentinel

University of Tennessee football coach Butch Jones and athletic director Dave Hart are on a list of more than 90 witnesses that UT lawyers are prepared to call if a federal lawsuit alleging UT has a "hostile sexual environment" goes to trial.

Other potential witnesses include UT President Joe DiPietro and Chancellor Jimmy Cheek, as well as staff and administrators from across the Knoxville campus, current and former students and football players, Knoxville Police Chief David Rausch and well-known local attorneys.

The witness list was filed Tuesday in exhibits that accompany the university's latest argument to have the lawsuit dismissed or be moved to Knoxville from Nashville. Most of the witnesses on the list are in Knoxville.

In the lawsuit, filed Feb. 9, a total of eight unidentified women allege UT's handling of sexual assault cases, especially those against student athletes and football players, violates Title IX and other federal laws. Six of the women claim to have been sexually assaulted, and five allege they were sexually assaulted by football players.

The attorneys on UT's witness list include Gregory P. Isaacs, Don Bosch, David Eldridge, Chris Coffey, Beecher Bartlett, Ursula Bailey and Wayne Ritchie. Most have represented student athletes in criminal and in university disciplinary cases.

Bartlett conducted an investigation into the actions of Jenny Wright, former director of UT's Office of Student Judicial Affairs, who is on the witness list with Tim Rogers, former vice chancellor for student life. Both have agreed to be witnesses for the plaintiffs, according to court records.

Bosch has represented various athletes, mostly football players, and the lawsuit lists him as the lawyer in a university disciplinary case for former basketball player Yemi Makanjuola, who was accused of sexual assault by one of the plaintiffs. Makanjuola wasn't charged criminally but was found responsible in the case at a university disciplinary hearing.

Coffey represented former football player Von Pearson, accused of sexual assault by another plaintiff. Criminal charges were not filed in that case.

Eldridge represents Michael Williams, who faces aggravated rape charges, and Isaacs represents Alexis Johnson, who's accused of aggravated assault. Both are former football players, and both of their accusers are plaintiffs in the federal lawsuit as well.

Not on the witness list are attorneys Stephen Ross Johnson and Tom Dillard, who represent former football player A.J. Johnson, accused of rape by the same woman as Williams.

UT also includes the plaintiffs' lawyers on the witness list. UT lawyers wrote they expect attorneys David Randolph Smith and Lyon Chadwick to testify "about their interference with and delay of the university's investigation" for the accuser of Williams and A.J. Johnson.

Also on the witness list are UT staff members in the housing, student conduct and athletics departments and roughly 50 unidentified students. UT lawyers also plan to call current and former football players to "rebut" allegations about culture problems with the football team, including examples of two plaintiffs who continued to socialize with players after making their accusations, according to court documents.

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