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Posted by: Laura Labenberg on Dec 2, 2025

In this edition of Voices of the YLD, Alix Rogers shares the influence that her involvement in the TBA has had in her legal career. Sharing her own thoughts and the voices of other first-gen lawyers, How the TBA Helps First-Generation Lawyers Build Community, Confidence and Careers, reminds readers of the importance of having a community of colleagues and the significant difference it can make in one's professional life and well-being. Rogers is the Middle Tennessee governor for the TBA Young Lawyers Division, the TBA YLD representative to the American Bar Association, the co-coordinator of the TBA YLD Rural Judicial Fellowship program and the vice chair of the TBA Mentoring Committee. She is the director of career and professional development at Belmont University College of Law. If you are interested in submitting a piece for Voices of the YLD, contact Brian Mounce, YLD's Publications Committee chair.