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Leadership
Administrative Law Leadership
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Chair Bill Penny Burr & Forman LLP bpenny@burr.com 222 Second Ave So, Ste 2000
Nashville, TN 37201See map: Google Maps |
Bill is the chair of Burr & Forman's Environmental Practice Group and has a wide range of experience in environmental law at the state and federal levels, including natural resource law, mining, remediation, negotiation with regulatory agencies in environmental matters, superfund litigation, RCRA matters, brownfield redevelopment, wetlands, water quality, radiological waste and... |
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Vice-Chair Christy Allen State of Tennessee Department of General Services christy.allen@tn.gov 312 Rosa L. Parks Ave., TN Tower 22nd Floor
Nashville, TN 37243See map: Google Maps |
Christy A. Allen is the General Counsel for the Tennessee Department of General Services. Before joining General Services, she served as Assistant Treasurer for the Tennessee Treasury Department’s Legal, Compliance and Audit Division from 2011-2018. In this role, Ms. Allen oversaw the attorneys and compliance and internal audit staff in the Department. |
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Immediate Past Chair David Grimmett Grimmett Law Firm, PLLC dgrimmett@grimmettlawfirm.com 315 Deaderick St Ste 1210
Nashville, TN 37238See map: Google Maps |
David Grimmett is a former law clerk to the Administrative Law Judges who oversee contested cases before the State Licensing Boards. Within two weeks of passing the bar, he tried his first matter before the Board of Nursing Home Administrators. Since that time, he has represented several licensed professionals ranging from nurses to doctors and EMTs to appraisers. He is a board member of the... |
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Middle TN Delegate Don Baltimore Farris Bobango PLC dbaltimore@farris-law.com 414 Union Street, Suite 1105
Nashville, TN 37219See map: Google Maps |
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Middle TN Delegate Dan Elrod Butler Snow LLP dan.elrod@butlersnow.com 150 3rd Ave. S., Ste 1600
Nashville, TN 37201See map: Google Maps |
Dan H. Elrod practices in the areas of healthcare, government relations and insurance. He received a B.S. from Middle Tennessee State University in 1970 and received his J.D. from Tulane University in 1973. Mr. Elrod is admitted to practice in Tennessee. |
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Middle TN Delegate Alex Fisher Frost Brown Todd LLC afisher@fbtlaw.com 150 3rd Avenue South, Suite 1900
Nashville, TN 37201See map: Google Maps |
Alex Fisher, a senior associate attorney at Frost Brown Todd in Nashville, has a practice with an emphasis in health care related boards, including the Tennessee Board of Medical Examiners and the Tennessee Board of Nursing. Alex is currently a faculty member at the Vanderbilt Center for Professional Health, where she teaches a Continuing Medical Education course, which is a part of the Center... |
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Middle TN Delegate Rita Gibson Rayford Memphis Area Legal Services, Inc. rgibsndye@msn.com 22 North Front Suite 1100
Memphis, TN 381035021See map: Google Maps |
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Middle TN Delegate Tom Lee Frost Brown Todd LLC tlee@fbtlaw.com 150 3rd Ave So Ste 1900
Nashville, TN 37201See map: Google Maps |
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Middle TN Delegate John Lyell Lyell Law Firm Pllc jlyell@lyellfirm.com Jacques Miller Building 211 7th Ave N Ste 300
Nashville, TN 37219-1821See map: Google Maps |
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Middle TN Delegate Rachel Newton Tennesee Attorney General and Reporter newton.rachel.a@gmail.com P.O. Box 20207
Nashville, TN 37202See map: Google Maps |
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Middle TN Delegate John Reinbold State of TN - Dept of Transportation John.Reinbold@tn.gov 505 Deaderick Street, Suite 300, James K. Polk Building
Nashville, TN 37243See map: Google Maps |
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Middle TN Delegate Tom Stovall Tenn Dept of State Admin Procedures Div tom.stovall@tn.gov 312 Rosa L. Parks Ave
Nashville, TN 37243See map: Google Maps |
Administrative Law Judge, Administrative Procedures Division, Office of the Tennessee Secretary of State. ... |
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Middle TN Delegate Thaddeus Watkins Law Office, Department Of General Services, State Of Tn thaddeus.e.watkins@tn.gov 312 ROSA PARKS BLVD, TN TOWER, 22nd FL
Nashville, TN 37243-1102See map: Google Maps |
Thaddeus E. Watkins, III is the general counsel for the Tennessee Department of General Services. Mr. Watkins has worked as an attorney for the State of Tennessee for over thirty (30) years and served as general counsel for the Department of Commerce and Insurance before accepting that position with the Department of General Services in 2003. His experience includes serving... |
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Staff Coordinator Chelsea Bennett Tennessee Bar Association cbennett@tnbar.org 221 4th Avenue N. Suite 400
Nashville, TN 37219See map: Google Maps |
Chelsea Bennett is a Sections, Committees and CLE Coordinator for the Tennessee Bar Association. She brings the association eight years of diverse work experience in the education sector. Previously, she worked as the head studio teacher and welfare agent with the child actors starring on the television show “Nashville.” Bennett received her bachelor’s degree in sociology from The Ohio State... |