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Wellness Conference 2021
Making Mental Health & Wellness Matter -
Creating a Culture of Openness to Normalize Conversations About Health & Wellbeing
Friday, September 24, 2021 | City County Building - Main & Small Assembly Rooms
WELLNESS CONFERENCE- FACULTY
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Wellness Conference Faculty Bios
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Elizabeth Carroll joined the Office of the General Counsel at TVA last year, serving as an attorney in the employment law group. Prior to her current position, she served for over 11 years as executive director of a local nonprofit organization. In that role, she directed the executive, legal, contracts, HR, accounting, IT, and programming departments. She graduated from the UT College of Law in 1997 and has been licensed since 2011. |
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Jim Cornelius as been with Egerton McAfee since 2008 and handles real estate and business transactions. He serves on the management committee so has experience in dealing with a multitude of personnel issues. Jim is a graduate of the UT College of Law and has been licensed since 1991. Jim also has been involved extensively in the KBA, serving as Barristers President in 1999 and since 2005 has served as the Co-Chair of the Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers Committee. In addition, Jim served two three-year terms as a Commissioner for the Tennessee Lawyer Assistance Program (“TLAP”) from June of 2009 to June of 2015, and he served as Chairman of the TLAP Commission from June of 2012 until June of 2014. |
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Hon. Kristi Davis is a judge on the Tennessee Court of Appeals. She was appointed to the court by Governor Bill Lee on May 28, 2020. She was sworn into office on the court on August 3, 2020. Judge Davis, who has been a circuit court judge in the Sixth Judicial District in Knoxville since 2014, is the second female judge to serve on the Court of Appeals from the Eastern Division and the sixth woman to serve on the Court of Appeals. Judge Davis grew up in Knox County and graduated from Karns High School. She majored in Communications at the University of Tennessee and went on to graduate with honors from the UT College of Law. While in law school, Judge Davis was a member of the Tennessee Law Review, the Jerome Prince Evidence Moot Court Team, and received awards of excellence for oral advocacy and brief writing. Judge Davis served as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Joseph M. Tipton, Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals, from 1998-2000, after which she joined the law firm of Hodges, Doughty & Carson, PLLC. Judge Davis became a partner in 2007 and was the only female partner for four years. Her practice was devoted to civil litigation and appeals |
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Caitlin Elledge is an owner and managing partner at Sobieski Messer & Elledge, PLLC. She has been with the firm since January 216. Within the last year, both senior partners retired from her firm, and she has hired several new lawyers, so I anticipate she will be able to share her experiences on many multi-generational issues. Prior to her current position, she was an Associate at Bunstine, Watson & Becker. Caitlin practices family law, serves as a mediator, and was licensed in 2011. |
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Caitlin Ensley, Senior Director of Education and Outreach at the Mental Health Association of East Tennessee, has her Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Social Work from the University of Tennessee Knoxville and has worked at MHAET since 2014. With a family history of mental health issues, Caitlin has a passion for working with youth and decreasing mental health stigma. She works primarily with the Mental Health 101 program, which is a free youth education program that has been offered since 2000 and serves over 100 Tennessee schools and 30,000 students during the school year and gives students the tools and information needed to make a difference in their own life or the life of a friend. She has also worked with many community groups during her time at MHAET to educate the community to better prepare them to address any mental health issues and improve the health of our community. |
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Joanna Goan is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist with over 20 years of experience, an Integrative Health and Wellness Coach, a Registered Yoga Teacher, and Continuing Education Provider for Dietitians, Nurses, and Yoga Teachers. Her personal passion is to change lives by teaching clients and students how to achieve an overall healthy lifestyle that truly nourishes the mind, body, and spirit. She is the owner of Evolve Nutrition and Yoga, LLC. Services include nutrition counseling and therapy; private and group yoga; yoga teacher and leadership training, and more.
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Emily Heird, LPC/MHSP is a licensed professional counselor and high-performance coach to lawyers. She is on a mission to improve the mental health statistics in the legal industry and the quality of lives of lawyers through coaching and consulting. As the daughter of and wife to lawyers, Emily has had a front-row seat to the life of a lawyer her entire life. She sees the everyday stressors of this profession and the effects it has on lawyers, and therefore, their families. Emily is the founder and owner of Vantage View Coaching as well as the founder and owner of Knoxville Counseling Services. She wholeheartedly believes that your wellbeing does not need to be compromised in the name of your career, and that every lawyer deserves to thrive in law and life. |
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Luke Ihnen has been with London Amburn for the past 5 years focusing on medical malpractice defense, healthcare audits and investigations, business litigation, employment discrimination defense, and other civil and regulatory matters. Luke attended the UT College of Law and was licensed in 2016. Luke is starting a new position at the Federal Public Defenders Office on August 2, and has said he was driven to find a position that was more service-oriented. Since joining the KBA, Luke has been active on the Diversity in the Profession and Access to Justice Committees, and is one of the most innovative, organized, and compassionate people I have ever met. |
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Hannah Lowe, Knoxville attorney and KBA member, graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 2010 and has practiced law in Knoxville since 2011. She practiced with Knoxville insurance defense firm Trammell, Adkins & Ward until June 2021, when she joined Atlanta-based Fields Howell, and now works remotely from her home in Knoxville handling complex insurance coverage and defense litigation. Hannah began practicing yoga regularly around 8 years ago, and soon realized the benefits of a regular yoga practice for relief from the stresses and demands of a busy law practice. In 2020, looking to deepen her own practice and share the benefits of yoga with others, Hannah enrolled in a Yoga Alliance Certified 200 Hour Yoga Teacher Training Program at Knoxville studio, Evolve Nutrition and Yoga. She graduated from the program in February 2021 and since then has enjoyed teaching classes at Knoxville studios Evolve and Real Hot Yoga, and to her friends and neighbors. Hannah is excited to share with other lawyers the benefits of a regular yoga practice at the KBA Wellness Conference |
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Lori Ramsey is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT). She has 19 years of therapeutic experience specializing in treating anxiety, depression, trauma, grief, and chronic life stress. Her work with clients includes the teaching of yoga, meditation, and emotional regulation techniques to help clients create stabilization and coping. Lori's work is built on her philosophical foundation that all people can feel better. Lori uses this belief along with the client's own strengths, to help clients gain insight, extinguish negative behaviors, and establish healing so they may live more fulfilled and productive lives. |
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Cheryl G. Rice focuses her practice primarily in the area of civil litigation, with emphasis in Business and Commercial Litigation, Banking Law, Creditors' Rights and Trade Practice Litigation. Cheryl has practiced law for over 20 years and is a licensed attorney in Tennessee, Virginia and the District of Columbia. She has extensive experience handling civil litigation matters for individuals and businesses in both state and federal courts and regularly assists large and small companies with breach of contract claims, unfair trade practice claims, entity governance issues, tortious interference disputes and other matters involving business relationships. She also represents the interests of businesses and individuals in matters such as enforcement of non-compete and confidentiality agreements, trade secret matters, personnel policy issues, and wrongful termination. Cheryl enjoys helping her clients work through the legal issues they face and serving as their voice with opposing parties, judges and others. |
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Brooklyn Sawyers-Belk, legal counsel for Lyft, Inc., a leading international transportation company, managing a litigation and safety team. Brooklyn is the first African American woman to earn the position. She was in private practice with Weinberg Wheeler Hudgins Gunn & Dial out of Atlanta and previously served as an Assistant US Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee. Brooklyn graduated from the UT College of Law and was licensed in 2006. She currently serves as a Visiting Professor and Lecturer at the University of Tennessee College of Law, so she is well aware of the needs and expectations of young professionals. |
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Buddy Stockwell was appointed by the Tennessee Supreme Court on July 1, 2020, as the new Executive Director of the Tennessee Lawyers Assistance Program (TLAP). Stockwell comes from south Louisiana where he has been a volunteer and program monitor for the state’s Committee on Alcohol and Drug Abuse since 1993, and the Executive Director of Louisiana's comprehensive Judges and Lawyers Assistance Program (JLAP) peer professionals' program for the last ten years. He is a Certified Clinical Interventionist through “Love First” training at the Betty Ford Center and has personally been in recovery from alcoholism for over 37 years. Over the years he has supported hundreds of bar members, bar applicants, and family members of the bar with a wide range of substance use disorders and mental health issues. Stockwell earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Management from Louisiana State University in 1989 and a Juris Doctor degree from LSU Law School in 1993. Post-law school, he practiced in both large and small firm settings, but ultimately opened a solo practice in Baton Rouge where he focused heavily on domestic litigation until 2004 when he sold his Baton Rouge law office, home, and vehicles and he and his wife, Melissa, moved aboard a large catamaran and sailed the seas for six years, covering 19,000 nautical miles. Stockwell is a U.S. Coast Guard Licensed Captain and seasoned ocean mariner. He also served in the Navy prior to college. He is dedicated to TLAP's mission and very excited to serve the Tennessee Supreme Court, the TLAP Commission, and stakeholders in the profession as the new TLAP Executive Director. |
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