2018 Annual Meeting Packet 2018 Annual Meeting PowerPoint 2018 - Value of Membership 2018 - KBA Annual Meeting - By the Numbers Year End Committee and Section Reports View the Photo Gallery KBA President Keith H. Burroughs presided over the Annual Meeting of the Knoxville Bar Association on Friday, December 14, 2018. More than 200 lawyers and judges were in attendance. Mr. Burroughs announced that the following KBA members were elected as officers for 2019: Hanson R. Tipton – President-Elect, Cheryl G. Rice – Treasurer, and Jason H. Long - Secretary. The membership elected the following KBA members to the four open positions on the Board of Governors: Hon. Suzanne H. Bauknight, Loretta G. Cravens, Elizabeth B. Ford, Rachel P. Hurt. Wynne Caffey-Knight assumed the presidency of the 1800 plus member Knoxville Bar Association at the close of the meeting.
Adrienne L. Anderson was presented the KBA’s highest award, the prestigious Governors’ Award, which is given annually to a lawyer whose peers believe has brought distinction and honor to the legal profession.
The Presidents’ Awards for 2018 were presented to Hon. Deborah C. Stevens for her tireless efforts and many years of service on the Diversity in the Profession Committee and to Melissa Carrasco, Chris McCarty and Cathy Shuck for their work as Co-Chairs of the Publications Committee. The Award for outstanding writing was presented to Angelia Nystrom for her contributions to the KBA monthly magazine DICTA. The Courage in the Face of Adversity Award was presented to Hon. James Curwood Witt, Jr. of the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals and the Don Paine Lawyer Legacy Award was presented to U.S. District Court Judge Pamela L. Reeves.
Mikel Towe was introduced as President of the Knoxville Barristers, the Young Lawyers Division of the KBA, and it was announced that Luke Ihnen and Zachary Walden, Co-Chairs of Constitution Day Committee, were presented with the Barristers’ Presidents’ Award for 2018.
