Current and Past AWA Presidents
Current President
Faith Watson
Faith Watson is a native of Nashville, Tennessee but has been in Memphis since 2013. She graduated Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law in 2016 and was selected to be a clerk for Chancellor JoeDae Jenkins in Chancery Court Part III in Shelby County. She was also a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable William Campbell, Jr. for the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee.
After completing her clerkships, Faith practiced Family Law with the Rice Law Firm and then became an Assistant District Attorney for Shelby County before working as an Assistant City Attorney for the City of Memphis. She is currently a Professor at Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law in Memphis, Tennessee where she teaches Legal Methods and Divorce Law Practicum and coaches the Mock Trial Team. She also serves as President of the Memphis Bar Association-Young Lawyers Division and involved with Tennessee Bar Association- Young Lawyer Division.
2025 Noor Obaji
2024 Ashley N.F. Moore
2023 Meagan Jones
2022 Abigail D. Hall
2021 Jenna McDonald Nichols
2020 Megan Lane
2019 Laura Deakins
2018 Eileen Kuo
2017 Diana Comes
2016 Lisa Gill
2015 Keating Lowery
2014 Mary Morgan Whitfield
2013 Frances M. Riley
2012 Emily Taube
2011 Lucie Brackin
2010 Michele Howard Flynn
2009 Jennifer Hagerman
2008 Shari Myers
2007 Laurie L. Christensen
2006 The Honorable Kay S. Robilio
2005 Mary McGinnis
2004 Amy M. Pepke
2003 Karen Hall
2002 Sara Falkingham Maxwell
2001 Jackie Prester
2000 Barbara Zoccola
1999 Susan Clark
1998 Valerie Johnson
1997 Patricia Horton
1996 Mary Arnov
1995 Rebecca Baggett
1994 Kathy Story
1993 The Honorable Julia Smith Gibbons
1992 Denise McCrary
1991 The Honorable Bernice B. Donald
1990 Ellen Vergos
1989 Gail Mathes
1988 Shelia Cunningham
1987 Faye Austin
1985 Alayne Adams
1984 Alayne Adams
1983 Kathleen Norfleet
1982 Bonnie Ragland
1981 Bonnie Ragland
1980 Gail Mathes
1979 Gail Mathes