TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Azya Thornton on Feb 20, 2026

Belmont University College of Law alumna Sarah Ingalls was admitted to the bar of the U.S Supreme Court last November, a rare early-career milestone achieved just six years after earning her law degree. Ingalls, now an associate at Thompson Burton in Nashville, worked on a case that reached the nation’s highest court, which agrees to review fewer than 1% of the roughly 8,000 petitions it receives each term. A former journalist who enrolled at Belmont Law in 2017, Ingalls gained experience through moot court and judicial clerkships before joining the firm after graduation, where she focuses on complex commercial and appellate litigation. She traveled to Washington, D.C. to observe veteran Supreme Court advocate Lisa Blatt present oral arguments in the case and was admitted to the Supreme Court bar under Blatt’s mentorship, allowing her to argue before the court in the future. Belmont University has more on Ingalls’ story.