Sarah Sheppeard Email & Phone Number

Sarah Y. Sheppeard, is a shareholder in the Knoxville office of Lewis Thomason. Sarah practices in the areas of domestic relations, estates, commercial law and general civil litigation and is certified as a Rule 31 mediator by the Tennessee Supreme Court and is a member of the National Academy of Distinguished Neutral. Sheppeard was named 2021 Lawyer of the Year in her area in the category of Mediation by Best Lawyers in America and also recognized in the category of Family Law. She has been a lecturer with the Tennessee Law Institute since 1988. She was chair of the Tennessee Judicial Evaluation Commission, was for 15 years an adjunct professor at the University of Tennessee College of Law, and was previously a member of the Tennessee Law Review. A past-president of the Tennessee and Knoxville Bar Associations, she is a Fellow in the Knoxville, Tennessee and American Bar Foundations and the Fellows of the Tennessee Young Lawyers Division. She served on the Advisory Commission to the Tennessee Supreme Court on Rules of Practice and Procedure. She received the Tennessee Bar Association’s President’s Award in 2010. In 2014, she was presented with the Knoxville Bar Association’s highest honor, the Governors’ Award. In 2015 she received the Don Paine Legal Legacy Award. She is a frequent speaker at continuing legal education programs.AFFILIATIONS

Listed skills include Family Law, Litigation, Continuing Legal Education, Small Business, and 8 others.

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