Notes

Amy Grant Gill ’78 was a 2022 Kennedy Center Honoree and the first musician from the contemporary Christian genre to be honored by the Kennedy Center. "It feels like an American cultural acknowledgment, and that feels profoundly different from anything else," Amy said in the Kennedy Center announcement. Her career spans more than 40 years, and she supports many philanthropic causes, including St. Jude Children's Hospital, MusiCares, the Nashville Symphony and Nashville Rescue Mission, just to name a few. She also serves as a Harpeth Hall honorary trustee.

Mandy Haynes Young ’85 was included in the Nashville Business Journal’s Best of the Bar honoree list for 2022. Her practice focuses on government with the firm Butler Snow LLP.

Jacqueline Saturn Dakar ’86 was elected as chapter governor of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Recording Academy/Grammys.

Cynthia Averbuch Albin ’88 resides in St. Louis, Missouri, where she has been practicing family law for over 25 years and is a partner in the law firm Todt, Cody, Albin & Fuchs, LLC. She and her husband, Seth, have two children: Sydney who is a sophomore at The Ohio State University and Ethan who is a junior in high school.

Edie Carell Johnson ’80 received the 2020-2021 Distinguished Service Award from the Vanderbilt School of Medicine. The ceremony for the honor took place in October 2022 during Vanderbilt’s quadruple reunion weekend.

Lela Hollabaugh ’85 was included in the Nashville Business Journal’s Best of the Bar honoree list for 2022. She is a litigation attorney with Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP.

Katie McDougall ’88 was featured in NFOCUS magazine as an example of an exceptional artist who teaches her craft to Nashville and beyond. She began and runs a dedicated writing center called The Porch, which has become one of Nashville’s foremost writing communities, now offering over 100 adult writing workshops and hosting multiple events each year. “The classes I’ve taught tend to have so many beautiful moments when people connect and bond,” Katie said. “I’m currently facilitating a workshop at Mending Hearts, a therapeutic community for women in addiction recovery, and the courage and support that comes from writing their hearts out and then sharing has blown me away.”