Meet Our Board
Posted January 7th, 2008
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Emily Campbell Taube - PRESIDENT
Emily.taube@arlaw.com
Emily Campbell Taube is an associate with Adams and Reese LLP. She focuses on the area of litigation, specifically franchise/dealership litigation and employee benefits litigation. Ms. Taube was also recently named by Mid-South Super Lawyers Magazine as a Rising Star for 2008 in the area of Franchise/Dealership law. Prior to her employment with Adams and Reese, Ms. Taube served as a Felony Trial Assistant with the Shelby County District Attorney’s Office.
Ms. Taube is active in several professional organizations including the American, Tennessee, and Memphis Bar Associations. She is a graduate of the Tennessee Bar Association Law Leadership Class of 2007, and is a current Board Member of the TBA Young Lawyer's Division, and Chair of the TBA Law School Outreach Committee. Ms. Taube is also a Barrister Member of the Leo Bearman, Sr. Chapter of the American Inn of Court, and serves as Chair of its Membership Committee. She is Board Member of the Association of Women Attorneys and serves as its Law School Outreach Liaison.
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Frances M. Riley - President-Elect / MBA Rep
Farris Mathews Branan Bobango Hellen & Dunlap PLC
friley@farris-law.com
Ms. Riley's practice concentrates in business bankruptcy reorganization and general business law. Ms. Riley also has extensive experience in the areas of housing and community development. She obtained her Bachelor of Science degree in Community Development from Pennsylvania State University, and her Juris Doctor from the University of Memphis. She is a member of the Memphis, Tennessee and American Bar Associations and the Association of Women Attorneys.
Ms. Riley formerly practiced with the Memphis firm of Humphreys Dunlap Wellford Acuff & Stanton, PC, which merged with Farris Mathews on January 1, 2004.
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Lucie Brackin - Immediate Past President - Annual Banquet Chair
The Landers Firm
lbrackin@landersfirm.com
Lucie K. Brackin graduated with from the University of Arkansas School of Law-Fayetteville in 2000, and is admitted to practice law in Tennessee, Arkansas, and Colorado. Lucie practices family law as an associate with The Landers Firm.
Along with the Association of Women Attorneys, Lucie is active in the
Memphis Bar Association and serves as President of the Family Law
Section. She is also a member of the Colorado and Tennessee Bar
Associations, and the Leo Bearman, Sr. American Inns of Court.
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Brittan Robinson - TREASURE
Stone, Higgs & Drexler
bwebb@stonehiggsdrexler.com
Brittan W. Robinson attended the University of Memphis and received her J.D. in 2008. While in law school, Brittan was an associate editor of the University of Memphis Law Review. She is admitted to practice law in Tennessee and Mississippi. She is an associate with the firm of Stone, Higgs & Drexler and focuses in the areas of bankruptcy and civil litigation.
In addition to serving on the Board of the AWA, Brittan is a member of the Memphis, American and Mississippi Bar Associations, as well as the Junior League of Memphis.
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Jennifer Himes - Vice President/Special Events Co-Chair-Golf
Hale, Dewey & Knight, PLLC
jhimes@haledewey.com
Presently Of Counsel with Hale, Dewey and Knight, PLLC, Jennifer is Sr. Counsel with Husch Blackwell, LLP. My area of practice is commercial litigation, with a focus on the UCC.
In the past she has practiced in the areas of commercial real estate development, creditors' rights and bankruptcy litigation.
She received her bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois, in Champaign-Urbana and her Juris Doctor from the
Cecil C. Humphrey's School of Law at University of Memphis, where she was a Member of the Moot Court Board, President
of the Environmental Law Council and an editor for the Tennessee Journal of Practice and Procedure, 1996-7.
Jennifer is licensed to practice law in Tennessee and Georgia. Legal association memberships include the American
Bar Association, Tennessee Bar Association, Memphis Bar Association, Georgia Bar Association, and the Association
for Women Attorneys. This is her first year serving as an officer for the AWA, and is honored to be a
part of this association.
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Ashley Martin - Judicial Reception Char
Harris Shelton Hanover Walsh
amartin@harrisshelton.com
Ashley Austin Martin graduated the University of Memphis and received her J.D. in 2003 and is admitted to practice law in the State of Tennessee. Ashley also graduated University of Tennessee in Chattanooga, where she received her B.A. in 2000. Ashley Martin is employed by Harris Shelton Hanover and Walsh. She concentrates her practice in the areas of domestic relations, child advocacy, medical malpractice defense and general civil litigation. Along with the Association of Women Attorneys, she is a member of the Memphis, Tennessee and American Bar Associations.
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Lisa Gill - Secretary
Dinkelspiel Rasmussen & Mink, PLLC
lgill@drmlawmemphis.com
Lisa Gill graduated with a B.A.S. from the University of Memphis and her J.D. from the Cecil C.
Humphreys School of Law at the University of Memphis. Lisa is an associate with Dinkelspiel,
Rasmussen & Mink, PLLC where she counsels clients in the areas of civil litigation both in state and
federal courts. She concentrates her practice in the areas of employment, domestic, corporate and
contract law.
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Laurie Christensen - IOLTA GRANT COMMITTEE & TAX LIAISON
Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation
laurie.christensen@bmhcc.org
Laurie has served on AWA's Board since 2004, having served as AWA's Historian, President-Elect and President. She is currently Co-Chair of the Continuing Legal Education Committee and comes to the AWA Board with a background in corporate law. She is employed as a staff attorney for Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation in Memphis. She obtained her JD from the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law in Memphis Tennessee. Laurie is also on the Board of Directors for The Community Legal Center as the AWA Representative and also on the Board of Directors for the Memphis Bar Association. Laurie recently completed her certification as a Certified Collaborative Lawyer.
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Judge Kay Robilio - Judicial Liaison/Publicity CommitteeCircuit Court Judge - Division V
Judge Robilio is a Shelby County Circuit Court Judge who was elected Judge of Division 5 in 1990 and later reelected in 1998. Judge Robilio graduated with a B.A., cum laude, from Memphis State University and later obtained her law degree from the Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law at the University of Memphis.
Judge Robilio has also contributed to legal seminars and publications including her article "Mediation: The Judge's New Tool for Case Management," published in the Tennessee Journal of Practice and Procedure, Volume I Winter 1997.
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Anita Lotz - Scholarship Chair
Mrs. Lotz's practice concentrates in the areas of financial institutions regulatory compliance, commercial finance transactions, real estate transactions and general corporate law. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts degree from Northwestern University and her Juris Doctor degree from Boston University. Mrs. Lotz is a member of the Memphis, Tennessee and American Bar Associations and the Association of Women Attorneys.
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Megan Arthur - Fashion Show Co-Chair
marthur@smmfamilylaw.com
Megan, a native of Memphis, earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Southern Methodist University in 2000. After graduation, she served three years as a broker’s assistant to several senior investment executives at a national financial planning corporation before earning her Juris Doctorate degree in 2006 from the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law. After practicing in the areas of insurance defense, employment law, medical malpractice, and family law for five years, Megan joined the firm in February of 2011 to concentrate exclusively on her domestic litigation practice, including divorce, child custody, parentage, paternity, adoption, child support, alimony and prenuptial agreements.
She is licensed to practice in Tennessee State and Federal courts. Megan is also involved in local community and civic activities. She is a member of the Junior League of Memphis as well as the Grand Krewe of Ptolemy and Carnival Memphis.
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E. Haavi Morreim - Membership Chair
hmorreim@uthsc.edu
Haavi Morreim is a Professor in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, where she has focused mainly on health law and bioethics, with special interests in health care's changing economics and in the litigation and compliance issues surrounding clinical medical research. She earned her Ph.D. from the University of Virginia and completed her J.D., magna cum laude, at the University of Memphis School of Law in December 2009. She was admitted to the Tennessee Bar in 2010 and is a Rule 31 listed civil mediator for both civil and family matters.
Dr. Morreim has authored two books and over one hundred forty articles in journals of law, medicine, and bioethics. She has presented hundreds of invited lectures nationwide, to such groups as the American Bar Association, the American Health Lawyers Association, the American Medical Association, the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, and the Tennessee Bar Association.
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Louise Chandler - Newsletter Chair
The Howard-Flynn Law Group
slc@hflawgroup.com
Louise was admitted to practice law in Tennessee in 2009, and she currently practices civil litigation and entertainment law at the Howard-Flynn Law Group in Memphis. Louise received a Juris Doctor from The University of Memphis School of Law in 2009 and a Bachelor of Arts from Millsaps College in 2005. Along with the Association of Women Attorneys, Louise is a member of the Memphis and Tennessee Bar Associations and the Tennessee Lawyers Association for Woman.
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Linda Schultz - Executive Director
Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation
linda.schultz@bmhcc.org
Linda has been with Baptist Memorial Health Care Corporation for 21 years and serves as the Executive Director for the AWA going on 4 years.
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