Stites & Harbison, PLLC welcomes attorney T. Dylan Reeves as a member based in the firm’s Nashville office. He joins the business litigation and torts & insurance practice service groups.

Reeves represents companies in a broad range of business, corporate and commercial litigation, including consumer financial servicers, products liability, professional liability, shareholder disputes, toxic torts, class actions, title insurance defense, multidistrict litigation and structured settlement and annuity transfers.

Reeves also is president of the University of Alabama National Alumni Association’s Nashville Chapter.

Butler Snow adds 3 for Nashville office

Lieselotte M. Carmen-Burks, Brady F. John and Cameron B. Rush have joined Butler Snow’s Nashville office. Carmen-Burks will practice with the firm’s labor and employment group, John with the pharmaceutical, medical device and health care group and Rush with the business services group.

Carmen-Burks has handled litigation and arbitration matters in the areas of labor and employment and civil rights. After law school, she clerked for the Hon. Herman N. Johnson, Jr., U.S. Magistrate Judge for the Northern District of Alabama.

Carmen-Burks holds degrees in political science and communication studies from Vanderbilt University and is a graduate of the University of Alabama School of Law.

John completed his undergraduate degree at Rhodes College before graduating from the University of Tennessee College of Law.

After Rush’s tenure in public service as an analyst in the Tennessee State Senate and regional director for a U.S. Senate campaign, Rush jump-started his legal career in the private sector representing financial institutions and other clients by negotiating and drafting deal documents on their behalf. He previously served as a government relations adviser for the firm.

Rush earned his law degree from Wake Forest University and holds a degree in legal studies from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

Hastings’ Powell earns national recognition

David M. Powell, FAIA, an owner and partner in Hastings, is being honored with the 2023 AIA Award for Excellence in Public Architecture. The award recognizes architects, public officials or other individuals who design distinguished public facilities and advocate for design excellence.

Powell moved to Nashville in 1991, after earning a degree in architecture from Oklahoma State University, to pursue careers in architecture and music. After working in both industries for nearly a decade, he retired from music to become a founding partner of polifio, inc. Powell became an owner and principal at HASTINGS in 2008 and has since designed a diversity of civic, community and mixed-use facilities – bringing the musical spirit of storytelling into each of his projects.

His commitment to a community-focused vision is exhibited in projects such as GEODIS Park, Peabody Union, Virgin Hotels Nashville, Sony Music Nashville, Bellevue Library, The Bridge Building, the adaptive reuse of the former Nashville Public Library at 225 Polk (now home to HASTINGS studio) and the renovation and expansion of the Ryman Auditorium.

Powell has been an AIA member since 1992 and was elevated to the College of Fellows in 2016. He has stewarded Nashville’s design community and served on the city’s Civic Design Center board of directors (2013-2021). In that role, he championed initiatives such as Design Your Neighborhood, a curriculum for middle school students and Socially Conscious Design 101, a six-week public course that educates participants on the broader impacts of design.

He has served on many committees and boards for a variety of nonprofit organizations, such as the Urban Land Institute Nashville, Thistle Farms, Nashville Repertory Theatre, Restore Ministries, Urban Housing Solutions, the Civic Design Center, and Museum of Contemporary Arts Nashville.

Barge Cauthen moves toward new leadership

Nashville-based civil engineering firm Barge Cauthen & Associates is transitioning to the next generation of leadership as Dan Barge III turns over ownership of the firm he founded in 1994.

John Gore joins Jeff Hooper and Liza Rivers as BCA’s new owners. All three will carry the titles of principal and have been with the firm 22, 23 and 29 years, respectively.

As part of the ownership change, the firm is changing its name to Barge Civil Associates.

BCA specializes in site planning, design and land development for both public and private-sector clients primarily in Middle Tennessee. Since its inception, BCA has completed nearly 7,000 projects including overseeing the construction of more than $750 million of mixed-use developments for H.G. Hill Realty Company and nearly 30 years’ worth of campus improvements to Vanderbilt University, Barge’s alma mater.

The firm currently has 32 employees including 10 licensed professional engineers and plans to hire additional staff in 2023 to accommodate its next stage of growth.

Traylor gets seat on Wold leadership team

Wold Architects & Engineers, an architecture and engineering firm specializing in education, government, health care and senior living, has promoted Anthony Traylor to its associates leadership team.

Traylor brings 14 years of experience to his new role, including six years with Wold. He joins the leadership team as a project manager. Highlights of his work include Poplar Grove Elementary Performing Arts Center & Gymnasium in Williamson County, State of Tennessee’s Rachel Jackson and John Sevier Office Buildings, Dickson County’s new Justice Center, Maury Regional Medical Center, and Heritage of Brentwood senior living community.

Architect Ractliffe joins SV Design

Architecture and interior design firm SV Design has added architect Matthew Ractliffe, who has been working in the field for more than eight years.

He joins the team from HMK Architects in Brentwood, where he started his career. There he primarily worked on health care projects, managing them through all the phases of the design process, from concept to final construction.

Ractliffe holds a degree in architecture from the University of Tennessee College of Architecture and Design.

Diversified Trust promotes 3, including new principal

Diversified Trust, an independent wealth management firm with offices throughout the Southeast, has promoted three in its Nashville office.

Jeff Carson has been promoted from senior vice president to principal. Carson is responsible for the oversight and administration of the firm’s fiduciary services and also leads the planning team in Nashville. He previously was senior vice president and senior trust officer with U.S. Trust. He is a graduate of the University of Mississippi, Mississippi College School of Law and his holds an LL.M. in estate planning from the University of Miami Law School.

Brittany Wyrick has been promoted from vice president to senior vice president. Wyrick supports the corporate operations team and provides broad administrative and operational support for the firm’s five offices.

She previously worked at Hays Advisory as an operations specialist and at Donaldson Capital Management as a business information manager. She is a graduate of Western Kentucky University.

Amy Shehan has been promoted from associate to senior associate. She is a member of the operations team and is responsible for client support and account administration. Shehan has more than 10 years of experience in the financial services industry and previously worked at Edward Jones Investments and in the Wealth Management Department of Truxton Trust.

Smith Seckman Reid names new president

Smith Seckman Reid, Inc., an engineering and consulting firm, has named Susan Osterberg president. She also will assume the role of chief executive officer Sept. 1.

Steve Lane, who has been CEO & president, will remain CEO until Sept. 1 and will continue as chair of the board of directors through 2023 to assist with the transition.

Osterberg was previously chief operating officer, a position she held since April 2021. She joined SSR in 2011 as vice president of human resources. In 2015, she was named chief administrative officer as part of the executive team leading the firm’s support services group including organizational development, human resources, marketing and IT. She was named to the board of directors in 2017.

She earned degrees in both business administration and organizational communications in 1988 from Concordia College in Minnesota.

Jones is Rutherford’s top business person for 2022

The Rutherford County Chamber of Commerce has named Middle Tennessee Electric’s Chris Jones as the 2022 Business Person of the Year.

Jones is MTE’s president and just the fifth CEO in the cooperative’s 85-year history. A 24-year veteran of MTE, he is a graduate of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where he earned his degree in communications.

During his tenure as CEO, Jones has navigated the organization through several severe weather events, the acquisition of United Communications and the merger with the Murfreesboro Electric Department. He also spearheaded efforts to persuade the Tennessee General Assembly to allow cooperatives to provide broadband services to rural areas.

In 2018, MTE acquired United Communications to expand broadband in underserved Middle Tennessee counties.

In 2022, he received the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association’s J.C. Brown CEO Communication Leadership Award, which recognizes an electric cooperative or public power district CEO/general manager committed to advancing communication.

Jones has also been awarded the Pinnacle Award from Leadership Rutherford and the Rutherford County Impact Award from the Nashville Business Journal.