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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jan 7, 2020

Gov. Bill Lee has appointed Pele Godkin as a new judge on the Workers’ Compensation Appeals Board, the Tennessee Bureau of Workers’ Compensation announced today. Godkin is a former workers’ compensation specialist in the Nashville and Murfreesboro offices of what was then the Division of Workers’ Compensation. In 2008, she joined the law firm of Cornelius & Collins and later because a partner. Godkin is a Rule 31 Listed General Civil Mediator and has more than a decade of experience in workers’ compensation. The board will hold an official swearing-in ceremony later this month.