1979     Gail Mathes

1980     Gail Mathes

1981     Bonnie Ragland

1982     Bonnie Ragland

1983     Kathleen  Norfleet

1984     Alayne Adams

1985     Alayne Adams

1986     Mary E. Walker

1987     Faye Austin

1988     Shelia Cunningham

1989     Gail Mathes

1990     Ellen Vergos

1991     The Honorable Bernice B. Donald

1992     Denise McCrary

1993     The Honorable Julia Smith Gibbons

1994     Kathy Story

1995     Rebecca Baggett

1996     Mary Arnov

1997     Patricia Horton

1998     Valerie Johnson

1999     Susan Clark

2000     Barbara Zoccola

2001     Jackie Prester

2002     Sara Falkingham Maxwell

2003     Karen Hall

2004     Amy M. Pepke

2005     Mary McGinnis

2006     The Honorable Kay S. Robilio

2007     Laurie L. Christensen

2008     Shari Myers

2009     Jennifer Hagerman

2010     Michele Howard Flynn

2011     Lucie Brackin

2012     Emily Taube

2013     Frances M. Riley

2014     Mary Morgan Whitfield 

2015     Keating Lowery

2016     Lisa Gill

Current and Past AWA Presidents

Current President

Diana Comes

Diana M. Comes is an associate with Butler Snow LLP. She concentrates her practice on commercial litigation and appellate and written advocacy.

 

Prior to joining Butler Snow, Ms. Comes clerked for the Hon. Jon P. McCalla, Chief U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Tennessee, and the Hon. Ronald L. Gilman, Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

 

Ms. Comes graduated from Rhodes College in 2008, summa cum laude, with a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, and from the University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law in 2011, summa cum laude. While in law school, Ms. Comes served as the Senior Articles Editor for the University of Memphis Law Review. She also served on the board of the student chapter of the Association for Women Attorneys and as a student attorney in the Elder Law Clinic.