Sheryl G. Snyder

Sheryl represents businesses in complex litigation. He has tried securities, fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, RICO, breach of contract and accounting malpractice cases, and has litigated several significant antitrust, trademark, and tortious interference cases for a variety of businesses.

Sheryl is also “the state’s premier appellate lawyer” according to Chambers USA®.  He has made the appellate oral argument in more than 50 reported decisions, including the Oklahoma City bombing civil litigation. He has argued in the Third, Fourth, Sixth, Seventh, Tenth and Eleventh Circuits.  He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers and a Life Member of the Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference. Sheryl is co-author (with 2 FBT colleagues) of the treatise Appellate Practice, Vol. 19 Kentucky Practice (Thomson/West).

Sheryl has also represented seven Governors of Kentucky, of both political parties, in significant constitutional litigation involving the separation of governmental powers and campaign finance.

He has served on the firm’s Executive Committee, and as Chair of the litigation department and appellate practice group. Prior to joining Frost Brown Todd LLC in 1994, he was Executive Vice President and General Counsel of ICH Corporation, an insurance holding company.

Sheryl is a Past President of both the Kentucky and Louisville Bar Associations. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the Kentucky Law Journal (1970-71) and law clerk to Honorable M. C. Matthes, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (1971-73).

Sheryl serves on the board of directors of the Louisville Zoo and has served on the boards of directors of numerous community organizations including, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Metro United Way, the Louisville Orchestra and Leadership Kentucky.