MEMPHIS LAWYER the magazine of the Memphis Bar Association
2015 MBA Officers
MBA Publications Committee Pam Blair Karen Campbell Dean DeCandia Michael Gabel Chastity Grice Sean Antone Hunt Liz Keough Stephen Leffler Harrison D. McIver III Jared Renfroe Ellen Vergos Mary Wagner Christy Washington Mason Wilson
Cover Photo Ribbon-cutting for the Memphis CHiLD initiative. Left to right: MALS Executive Director Harrison McIver; Congressman Steve Cohen; Peter Letsou, Dean of the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law; and Meri Armour, President and CEO of LeBonheur Children’s Hospital The Memphis Lawyer is a publication of the Memphis Bar Association, Inc. that publishes six times each year. The publication has a circulation of 2,200. If you are interested in submitting an article for publication or advertising in an upcoming issue, contact Anne Fritz at 527.3585; afritz@memphisbar.org The MBA reserves the right to reject any advertisement or article submitted for publication.
Thomas L. Parker President
Shea Wellford Vice President
Dean DeCandia
Secretary/Treasurer
Kirk Caraway Past President
2015 Board of Directors Jeremy Alpert Lara Butler Betsy Chance Annie Christoff Asia Diggs Damon Griffin Jennifer Hagerman Jonathan Hancock David Harris Maureen Holland Carrie Kerley Jana Davis Lamanna Emily Landry
Andre Mathis Gigi Gaerig McGown Elijah Noel, Jr. Mike Robb Abby Webb Section Representatives Stuart Canale Cam Hillyer Linda Holmes Kim Koratsky Earle Schwatrz Joshua Wallis
ABA Delgate Danny Van Horn AWA Representative Lisa Gill NBA Representative Amber Floyd Law School Representative Elizabeth Rudolph YLD President Nicole Grida
MBA STAFF
Anne Fritz
Executive Director
Lesia Beach
CLE/Sections Director
Charlotte Gean
Executive Assistant/ Membership Coordinator
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