Our Team

Tyler Chance Yarbro, Chair

Tyler Chance Yarbro is an attorney in private practice at Dodson Parker Behm & Capparella, PC, where she handles a broad range of litigation matters and serves as the Managing Partner. She began her career as a lawyer working as a public defender in Nashville. Tyler also is an adjunct professor at Vanderbilt Law School teaching trial advocacy and currently serves as the Senior Warden at Christ Church Cathedral. She is married to Jeff Yarbro, and they have two children.

Tracey George, Secretary

Tracey George is a professor of law and political science at Vanderbilt University where she also serves as the vice provost for faculty affairs. She is a founding board member of ThinkTennessee and a past chair of the board of Planned Parenthood of Middle and East Tennessee. She lives with her family in Nashville.

Margaret L. Behm

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.

Nancy Krider Corley

Nancy Krider Corley is a partner at Corley Henard Lyle Levy & Langford, PLC and Charter Member of LAW, TLAW, and CABLE. She is a fellow of the Tennessee and Nashville Bar Associations. In 2019, Nancy was the Athena Recipient and rewarded the Ralph Hanning Lifetime Community Service Award. She’s also been awarded the Nashville School of Law Outstanding Faculty Award, Sumner County Commissioner of the Year, and Outstanding Young Women of America award. She serves as a board member of the Salvus Center, Hendersonville GFW Club, League of Women Voters, and WPCTN. She also serves on the Advisory Board of TLAP and Grace Place Alliance. Nancy is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and Nashville School of Law. Nancy is a native of Paris, TN and resides in Hendersonville.

Laurence Pendleton

Laurence Pendleton serves as the General Counsel and Secretary to the Board of Trustees at Tennessee State University. Prior to joining TSU, he served in the Office of the General Counsel for the Tennessee Board of Regents, where he acted as lead counsel to several institutions in the TBR system. He also served for several years in the Office of General Counsel for the Colorado State University System, worked as a litigation attorney in the Denver office of Holme, Roberts and Owen (now merged with and known as Bryan Cave Leighton and Paisner), and was an adjunct faculty member at the University of Denver Law School. He received his undergraduate degree in Business Administration from the University of Kansas and was awarded his Jurist Doctorate from the University of Iowa.

Bill Harbison

Bill Harbison is a member of Sherrard Roe Voigt Harbison, where he works primarily in the areas of corporate law and trusts and estates. He is past president of the Tennessee Bar Association and the Nashville Bar Association. In 2015, Bill was selected as Nashvillian of the Year and won the ACLU Bill of Rights Award for his work in the landmark Obergefell v. Hodges case.

Monica Mackie

Monica Mackie is a thirty-five-year veteran of the legal industry, and most recently was the Executive Director of the Nashville Bar Association. Prior to the NBA, she was the president of Monaco Management, providing services in the areas of leadership training, seminars, law practice management, business development, special events, corporate retreats, fundraising and general business operations. Monica holds a bachelor’s degree from Middle Tennessee State University in political science and is certified to administer the MBTI®, also known as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. She resides in Franklin, TN, with her husband, John.

John Spragens

John Spragens represents plaintiffs in individual and class action litigation on behalf of whistleblowers, victims of discrimination and abuse, and others who were defrauded, injured, or killed by corporate misconduct or individual wrongdoing. He serves on the Metropolitan Board of Ethical Conduct and the board of Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi. He serves as an adjunct faculty member at Vanderbilt Law School, where he teaches “The Practice of Aggregate Litigation.”

D. Billye Sanders

D. Billye Sanders is the principal of D. Billye Sanders, Attorney-at-Law, and an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association. Formerly a partner with Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, LLP, she is a graduate of Vanderbilt Law School and Fisk University. Billye is a founding member of Metropolitan Interdenominational Church, was an inaugural member of the Tennessee Supreme Court’s Access to Justice Commission, and has served on the boards of many non-profits, including Metro Nashville Civil Service Commission, Metro Library Board, YWCA, Napier Looby Bar Foundation, Fisk, United Way, and CABLE.