Brown was a member of the Phi Beta Sigma fraternity and the Eta Beta Sigma alumni chapter in Nashville. He is the proprietor of the J. Anthony Brown & Company law firm. Besides being an attorney, Brown also writes books about legal subjects, including "True Crime Stories: An Attorney's View on Justice." He has been nominated for the Penney-Missouri Award for Literary Excellence for each of his books. He and his wife have three children. They live in Franklin, Tennessee. Fraternities were originally social organizations for college men who wanted to have a good time while they went to school. Today, many colleges have active chapters of multiple fraternities and sororities. The members of these groups work together to promote their organizations by volunteering their time and money for various projects or events. Members of different fraternities and sororities often compete against one another in interfraternity or intrasquadic games to show which group is best. Some examples include foot races, tug-of-war competitions, and basketball matches. Interfraternity councils are groups of men within individual universities who work with their national organizations to decide what role they want to play in campus life.