TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Azya Thornton on Dec 6, 2024

The terms of four Tennessee Commission on Continuing Legal Education members — Stephanie Coleman, Jay Ebelhar, Lynda Minks Hood and David Veile — will expire on Dec. 31. These members are not eligible for reappointment. To replace them, the Tennessee Supreme Court has adopted an order appointing new members to serve three-year terms starting Jan. 1, 2025, and ending Dec. 31, 2027. They are: Amy J. Farrar, founding partner of Tennessee Center for Estate & Elder Law in Murfreesboro; Joseph W. Smith, senior attorney at Miles Mason Family Law Group in Memphis; Mary Ann Upchurch, executive director of the Memphis Bar Association; and Wencke West, a Cleveland attorney in private practice. The court also has reappointed Julie Bennett, chief legal officer and corporate secretary at Ballad Health in Kingsport, as chair of the commission for a one-year term beginning Jan. 1 and ending Dec. 31, 2025.