TAPM BOARD OF DIRECTORS
2011-2012
Left to Right Front Row:
Larry Bridgesmith, Immediate Past President
Clayton Osborn, Treasurer (Resigned April 2011)
Richard Murrell, President
Doug Berry
Stephen Shield, Interim Treasurer & President Elect
Not Pictured:
Jay Barry, Secretary
Tiffany Baker Cox
John Blankenship
Ruth Hillis
Jackie Kittrell
Mary Ann Zaha
TAPM Officers and Directors for 2011-2012 eflect the diversity of the association, which we believe is extremely important to the future growth of mediation.
President, Richard Murrell
Richard Murrell was an attorney in private partice for 18 years before entering governmental pratice serving as a staff attorney for the Title IV-D Child Support Agency in the 30th Judicial District and later served as an Assistant Attorney General, General Civil Division for the State of Tennessee. Currently, as the Assistant Director of the Benefit Review Program for the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Mr. Murrell assists in the development of policy and procedure, directs the legal affairs in the Program’s offices Statewide and is the Designated Discovery Attorney, in which capacity he hears and determines contested issues related to discovery in the administrative process
Secretary, Jay Barry
Jay is in private practice in Lebanon, Tennessee. He is a Rule 31 Listed Family and General Civil Mediator in Tennessee; Certificate in Dispute Resolution from the Pepperdine School of Law, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution 1997. Member of the California Bar since 1998, currently inactive with CA bar; Registered with USPTO as a patent attorney since 1999; and active Member of the Tennessee Bar since 2003.
Director, Doug Berry
Rule 31 Listed Family and General Civil Mediator in Tennessee; Certificate in Dispute Resolution from the Pepperdine School of Law, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution 1997. Member of the California Bar since 1998, currently inactive with CA bar; Registered with USPTO as a patent attorney since 1999; and active Member of the Tennessee Bar since 2003.
Director, Tiffany Baker-Cox
Tiffany Baker Cox currently serves as the Deputy Director of the Tennessee Human Rights Commission where she is responsible for directing the Commission’s enforcement division which includes employment, housing and public accommodations discrimination investigations, the Commission’s mediation program, negotiating and monitoring contracts with the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development and assisting in the development of Commission policies and procedures. She is a native of Chattanooga, Tennessee and is a graduate of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Political Science with a concentration in Public Administration. She earned her Law Degree from the University of Memphis, Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law.
Director, John Blankenship
John T. Blankenship, founding member of Blankenship, Blankenship & Hagan, PLLC, is a native of Nashville, Tennessee, and a graduate of Middle Tennessee State University, the University Of Tennessee College Of Law, and the University of Missouri College of Law LLM program in Alternative Dispute Resolution. His practice is largely devoted to arbitration and mediation, particularly in the area of construction law. He has been on the panel of arbitrators for the American Arbitration Association for approximately 20 years, is a member of the College of Commercial Arbitrators, and is a frequent speaker at seminars on issues arising both out of construction law and out of the practices of arbitration and mediation. He is married to Pat Blankenship and they are the proud parents of four all-but-grown children.
Immediate Past President, Larry Bridgesmith
Larry Bridgesmith is a lawyer, litigator, educator and mediator. He occupies the Randy and Rhonda Chair for Conflict Management at the Institute for Conflict Management at Lipscomb University where he serves as the inaugural Executive Director. He is a Rule 31 Listed Civil Mediator and has mediated in numerous industries including health care, employment, non-profit and faith based organizations.
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