TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Aug 30, 2024

Henry Beecher Hicks III, the former CEO of the National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM), has filed a lawsuit alleging that he is owed close to $300,000 of promised payments as part of a separation agreement with the museum. NMAAM disputes that claim, telling the Nashville Business Journal, "We are continuing to gain a clearer picture of Mr. H. Beecher Hicks III's fiscal management practices during his tenure." Hicks led the museum from 2013 to 2023, which included the museum's opening in 2021 at the prominent Fifth + Broadway development in downtown Nashville, capping a planning effort that lasted more than two decades.