TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Liz Slagle Todaro on Mar 1, 2022

The Tennessee Bar Association has named two attorneys and a law student as the 2022 Public Service Award winners. The annual awards recognize an exceptional commitment to increasing access to justice for underserved individuals and communities. Ann Pruitt is the Ashley T. Wiltshire Public Service Attorney of the Year. Pruitt is being recognized for her tireless, innovative leadership in the ATJ community, including as executive director for the Tennessee Alliance for Legal Services (TALS). The Harris Gilbert Pro Bono Attorney of the Year Award recognizes a private attorney who has contributed significant amounts of pro bono work and who demonstrates dedication to the development and delivery of legal services to the poor. This year, that award goes to Ashley Goins Alderson, an attorney in the Nashville office of Stites & Harbison, in recognition of her extensive pro bono service in a complicated and extended international child abduction case. The Law Student Volunteer of the Year is Belmont University College of Law 3L Gabriella Cannone, recognized for her commitment to pro bono service including work with the Nashville Defenders and the Administrative Office of the Courts. The honorees are profiled in the March/April issue of the Tennessee Bar Journal.