Anne L. Russell is a lawyer practicing alternative dispute resolution, banking / financial services, dispute resolution and 9 other areas of law. Anne received a B.S. degree from Peabody College of Vanderbilt University in 1969, and has been licensed for 42 years. Anne practices at Adams and Reese LLP in Nashville, TN.
Professional Memberships / Affiliations
Tennessee Bar Association
Nashville Bar Association
Tennessee Judicial Council
United Way of Metropolitan Nashville, Board of Trustees
Nashville Symphony, Board of Trustees
National Symphony Orchestra, National Trustee
Cumberland Trust Company, Founding Director
Tennessee Performing Arts Center, Board of Trustees
Tennessee Lawyers Fund for lient Protection, Former Chair
Leadership Nashville, Alumni
Anne is also former chair of the Tennessee Lawyers Fund for Client Protection and is an alumna of Leadership Nashville.
Her other significant contributions include:
• Appointment by two governors to the Tennessee Judicial Council.
• Achieving Master of the Bar in the American Inns of Court. She also coached an all-female mock trial team for 14 years.
• Numerous presentations on antenuptial agreements, probate law, family law and civil litigation. She has written for the Nashville Bar Journal on Prenuptial and Post-Nuptial agreements.
• Named among Nashville Business Journal's "Women of Influence;" selected by the Nashville School of Law as its "Distinguished Alumni for 2008;" and earned Best Lawyers® distinction in Litigation and Controversy Tax Law in 2013 and 2014.
• Receiving the United Way of Metropolitan Nashville's highest honor, the Alexis de Tocqueville Society Award, in 2007. She also became the first woman to receive the Thomas F. Frist, Jr. "Excellence in Volunteer Leadership Award," given by United Way. Anne serves on the Board of Trustees of the United Way of Metropolitan Nashville, Chair of the Board, Campaign Chair and de Tocqueville Chair.
Anne also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Nashville Symphony where she is founder of the Stradivarius Society and Virtuoso Society for leadership gifts. Anne is a National Trustee for the National Symphony Orchestra of the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC. She is also on the Board of Trustees for the Cheekwood Museum of Art and Botanical Gardens and the Hermitage, Home of Andrew Jackson, and has been appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Tennessee Performing Arts Center by Governor Phil Bredesen.
Professionally, Anne has chaired the ADR Committee for the Nashville Bar and the Legal Education and Bar Committee for the Tennessee Bar, and is co-founder of the Nashville Conflict Resolution Center.
Anne is a founding director of Cumberland Trust Company. In her free time, she is a writer, reader, golfer, and international traveler. She is also a noted artist.
Professional Memberships / Affiliations
Tennessee Bar Association
Nashville Bar Association
Tennessee Judicial Council
United Way of Metropolitan Nashville, Board of Trustees
Nashville Symphony, Board of Trustees
National Symphony Orchestra, National Trustee
Cumberland Trust Company, Founding Director
Tennessee Performing Arts Center, Board of Trustees
Tennessee Lawyers Fund for Client Protection, Former Chair
Leadership Nashville, Alumni
Other Distinctions
AV® Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell
Women of Influence - Nashville Business Journal
Distinguished Alumni Nashville School of Law, 2008
Alexis de Tocqueville Society Award - United Way, 2007
Excellence in Volunteer Leadership Award - United Way
Best Lawyers® - Litigation and Controversy - Tax
Board of Trustees Belmont University
Faculty Belmont University School of Law
Fifth Third Center, 424 Church Street, Suite 2800Nashville, TN 37219U.S.A.
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