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Posted by: Kate Prince on Oct 5, 2021

Longtime Nashville attorney Paul Ney has joined Momentus Inc., a startup planning to offer infrastructure services in space, the Nashville Post reports. Ney is the company’s new chief legal officer and corporate secretary. He previously served as general counsel for the Department of the Navy and deputy general counsel of the Department of Defense during George W. Bush’s second term. He returned to Nashville to lead the Mayor’s Office of Economic and Community Development under then-Mayor Karl Dean and later became general counsel for the Department of Defense under the Trump administration. In 2016, he was named chief deputy to Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III.