TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Azya Thornton on Mar 16, 2026

The Mid-South Commercial Law Institute recently named new officers and directors to its 25-member board. Officers are: President Wendy Geurin Smith with Evans Petree; Vice President/President-Elect Justin Campbell with Thompson Burton; Secretary Maggie Reidyn, a staff attorney with the Chapter 13 Trustee; Treasurer R. Bradley Banks with Richard Banks & Associates; and Immediate Past President Cara Alday with Patrick, Beard, Schulman & Jacoway. New directors elected to five year terms are: Michael G. Abelow with Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison; Shanna Fuller Veach, a law clerk to Bankruptcy Chief Judge Suzanne H. Bauknight; Erin Wallin, a law clerk to Judge Nicholas W. Whittenburg; Elisabeth Donnovin with Johnson & Mulroony; and R. Campbell Hillyer with Butler Snow. Joining the board to fulfill the remaining term of a departing director is Locke Houston Waldrop with Baker Donelson. See the list of the full 2026 board.