Class Notes

Nancy Wood Stabell ’88 was included in the Nashville Business Journal’s Best of the Bar honoree list for 2022. She is a corporate securities and real estate attorney with the Wood Stabell Law Group.

Holly Sears Sullivan ’90 was the featured panelist at the Nashville Business Breakfast sponsored by Lipscomb University and the Nashville Business Journal on Oct. 27, 2022. She continues to serve as the vice president of world wide economic development at Amazon. In this role, she spearheaded the search for Amazon’s second headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, and brought 25,000 jobs to the region. Holly led the development of the new 5,000-employee Amazon Nashville location and the expansion of Amazon’s 18 North American tech hubs, creating more than 65,000 corporate and tech roles. Holly also works with local leaders to foster the growth of the company's operations and logistics footprint and job creation efforts around the world.

Kate Sherrard Chinn ’93 joined the board of the Nashville Public Education Foundation (NPEF). Kate recently started a new position as Partner at McNeely, Pigott, & Fox after working for AllianceBernstein, where she served as vice president of community and civic engagement.

Emily Hatch Bowman ’94 was listed as Best Lawyers in America's Lawyer of the Year for Banking and Finance Law. The Best Lawyers in America is one of the most highly regarded attorney referral publications in the country. Attorneys are selected for Best Lawyers through extensive surveys of leading lawyers who assess the legal abilities of their peers.

Reese Witherspoon ’94 and Hello Sunshine's president of film and TV, Lauren Neustadter, were named The Hollywood Reporter's TV Producers of the Year. Hello Sunshine’s focus on female stories from female storytellers has made it a standout. “We were all very vision-aligned from the very beginning about what we wanted to create as a brand — creating a narrative for women, where they could tell their story in their own words,” Reese told the Hollywood Reporter in a September 2022 article. “So, whether that’s through a book, a podcast, a social media post, it’s really about self-expression and showing the entire spectrum of the female experience.”

Beth Waltemath ’95 and her husband were the guest ministers at Monteagle last summer and were joined by classmates Lacey Galbraith ’95 and Sarah Oliver Warburton ’95

Meredith Mallard Thompson ’98 is serving as president of the Harding Academy Board of Trustees in Nashville, Tennessee.