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KBA Board of Governors

Meet Our Board of Governors

The Knoxville Bar Association serves more than 2000 members with an eighteen member Board of Governors. All policies and programs are either developed or overseen by the bar's Board of Governors. The Officers of the Knoxville Bar Association, or the Executive Committee, consist of the President, the President-Elect, the Secretary, the Treasurer, and the Immediate Past President. Elections for the Board of Governors are held each December.

View the agenda from the 2025 Annual Meeting here.
 

KBA Board of Governors

 

President

Rachel P. Hurt
Arnett, Baker, Draper & Hagood, LLP
P.O. Box 300, Knoxville, TN 37901-0300
Phone: (865) 546-7000

 

 

President-Elect

Ursula Bailey
Law Office of Ursula Bailey
422 S. Gay Street, Suite 301, Knoxville, TN 37902-1167
Phone: (865) 337-5737

 

 

Treasurer

Cathy Shuck
East Tennessee Children's Hospital
2018 Clinch Avenue, Knoxville, TN 37916
Ph: (865) 541-8835

 

 

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Secretary

M. Samantha Parris
Law Office of Samantha Parris
2908 Tazewell Pike, Suite G, Knoxville, TN 37918-1878
Phone: (865) 687-8744

 

 

Immediate Past President

Jonathan D. Cooper
Knox Defense
607 Market St., Suite 1100, Knoxville, TN 37902-2240
Phone: (865) 524-8106

 

 

Barristers President 

Courteney M. Barnes-Anderson
Tennessee Valley Authority
400 West Summit Hill Drive, WT-3C, Knoxville, TN 37902
Ph: (803) 341-0196

 

 

 

Barristers Vice President

Isaac Westling
Spicer Rudstrom, PLLC
800 S. Gay Street, Suite 1400
Knoxville, TN 37929-9737
Ph:  (865) 673-8516

 

 


 

 

Board Member

Kim R. Burnette
Arnett | Baker, LLP
P.O. Box 300, Knoxville, TN 37901
Ph: (865) 546-7000

 

 

Board Member

Melissa B. Carrasco
Carrasco | Trump, PLLC
123 Center Park Dr., Suite 124, Knoxville TN 37922-2110
Phone: (865) 371-8588

 

 

Board Member

Meagan Collver
Lewis, Thomason, P.C. 
P.O. Box 2425, Knoxville, TN 37901
Ph: (865) 546-4646    

 

 

 

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Board Member

Joshua D. Hedrick
Knox Defense
607 Market St., Suite 1100
Knoxville, TN 37902-2240
Ph:  (865) 545-5300    

 

 

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Board Member

Allison Jackson
Egerton, McAfee, Armistead & Davis, P.C.
P.O. Box 2047
Knoxville, TN 37901-2047
Ph:  (865) 546-0500

 

 

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Board Member

Matthew R. Lyon
Lincoln Memorial University - Duncan School of Law
601 W. Summit Hill Drive
Knoxville, TN 37902-2011
Ph:  (865) 545-5300

 

 

Board Member

James R. Stovall
Ritchie, Johnson & Stovall, P.C.
606 W. Main Street, Suite 300, Knoxville, TN, 37902-2623
Phone: (865) 637-0661

 

 

Board Member

C. Scott Taylor
Bernstein, Stair & McAdams LLP
116 Agnes Rd., Knoxville, TN 37919
Ph: (865) 546-8030

 

 

Board Member

Alicia J. Teubert
Woolf, McClane, Bright, Allen & Carpenter, PLLC
900 S. Gay Street, 900 Riverview Tower, Knoxville, TN 37902-1848
Phone: (865) 523-0209

 

 

Board Member

Shannon van Tol
Anderson & van Tol PLLC
P.O. Box 2588
Knoxville, TN 37901-2588

Phone:  (865) 249-8011

 

 

 

 

 

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