Margaret L. Behm is a principal of Dodson Parker Behm & Capparella, PC and former Managing Partner for thirty years, with a practice that concentrates on business, employment and municipal law and estate planning. She also serves as general counsel for the Metropolitan Transit Authority and Board Secretary. Margaret began her legal career at Legal Services of Middle Tennessee, Inc., and with retired Judge Marietta Shipley. founded the city’s first all-woman law firm Shipley & Behm in 1981. She recently co-founded the Votes for Women Room, a permanent exhibit at the Nashville Public Library about the fight to win women the right to vote and Tennessee’s pivotal role. She served for the first three years as the state’s first Tennessee Supreme Court appointed Access to Justice Chair. She is a big sports enthusiast, having co-chaired Nashville’s 2014 Women’s Final Four and currently serves as Chair of the Nashville Sports Authority’s Advisory Committee for its Women’s Professional Sports initiative.