Philip Holloway

Legal analyst

Philip Holloway is a CNN legal analyst whose law practice focuses on criminal law, police law, and civil and administrative litigation.
Philip Holloway

About

Philip Holloway is the founder of the Holloway Law Group, based in Cobb County, Georgia. A former prosecutor and police officer, he has a wide range of experience in legal matters, both as a practicing attorney and as a media analyst.

Holloway’s primary focus is criminal law, and he appears regularly in various courts in the state of Georgia. His cases include criminal defense, juvenile law, police law (including police brutality), military law and select civil litigation. He is a legal adviser to the Oconee County, Georgia sheriff’s office and maintains his certification with the Georgia Peace Officer Standards and Training Council.

A native Georgian, former police instructor and certified flight instructor, Holloway began his legal career after graduating summa cum laude in 1996 from South Texas College of Law, where he was on law review and the varsity mock trial team. He went on to serve as an officer and judge advocate in the U.S. Navy.

While on active duty, Holloway, then a lieutenant, graduated from the Naval Justice School’s trial advocacy course and earned certification as trial and defense counsel. Holloway has also served as an assistant district attorney, president of the Cobb County Bar Association’s criminal law section and has sat as a substitute judge. He has been an adjunct professor of criminal justice at Kennesaw State University.

He is admitted to practice law in Georgia, Ohio and the federal courts and is a member of the Bar of the U.S. Supreme Court.