TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Aug 17, 2017
Services will be Sunday for Nashville lawyer Yvette Sebelist, who died Tuesday. She was 55. Sebelist graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1996, where she was president of the Law Women and staff editor for the Tennessee Law Review. She received an American Jurisprudence Award in Appellate Advocacy and the American Association of Women Lawyers Award. She worked as an immigration attorney with Sebelist Buchanan Law LLC, and served on a number of state, local and regional bar committees. She also served on numerous community nonprofit boards. Graveside services for Sebelist will be at the Temple Cemetery, 2001 15th Ave. North, at 12:30 p.m.