Start Date
4-10-2024 9:15 AM
End Date
4-10-2024 10:30 AM
Description
Meet the Panelists
Joan MacLeod Heminway is the Rick Rose Distinguished Professor of Law and former interim director of the Institute for Professional Leadership at The University of Tennessee College of Law in Knoxville, Tennessee. She currently serves as a teaching fellow in the Haslam Leadership Scholars program and as a fellow of the C. Warren Neel Center for Corporate Governance, the Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and the Center for the Study of Social Justice at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. When she joined the College of Law faculty in 2000, Heminway brought nearly 15 years of corporate transactional legal practice experience, having worked on public offerings, private placements, mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, and restructurings in the Boston office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP since 1985. Heminway’s principal doctrinal scholarship focuses on securities disclosure law and policy (especially under Rule 10b-5, including insider trading) and incorporated and unincorporated business associations law in the United States (including entrepreneurial and social enterprise governance and finance). Her research and writing also extends to topics in law leadership. She coauthored (with Mark J. Loewenstein, Marc I. Steinberg, and Manning G. Warren, III) a business law text (5th Ed. 2024) Business Enterprises: Legal Structures, Governance, and Policy (Carolina Academic Press). In addition, her edited/coauthored book, Martha Stewart’s Legal Troubles, was released in 2007 (Carolina Academic Press). She has authored numerous articles and book chapters in domestic and international publications.
Heminway is a member of the American Law Institute and a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the Knoxville Bar Foundation. She is licensed to practice in Tennessee (where she is past chair of the Business Law Section of the Tennessee Bar Association) and Massachusetts (where she is inactive) and has been a registered yoga teacher (Yoga Alliance RYT200) since 2018.
D’Andrea J. Morning serves as vice president, corporate compliance (chief compliance and privacy officer) and in-house legal counsel for Grady Health System. In her role as chief compliance and privacy officer, Morning oversees the compliance and ethics function for the Grady Health System enterprise, which consists of an academic medical center, the largest nursing home in the state of Georgia, EMS operations, and ambulatory clinics. She also represents the health system in various legal matters with specific focus on health care regulatory, corporate governance, and compliance issues. Before becoming the chief compliance and privacy officer, Morning served as senior associate general counsel for Grady Health System. Prior to joining Grady Health System, she was a senior associate at Alston & Bird LLP in the firm’s Health Care Practice Group for six years. Morning earned her undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, from Xavier University of Louisiana in 2004. She earned her Juris Doctorate, cum laude, from Mercer University School of Law in 2007. Morning is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and is certified in health care compliance, health care privacy compliance, and is a certified compliance and ethics professional.
Ben Parrish served as the general counsel of four companies over a 25-year period. He was named senior vice president and general counsel of Smith and Nephew North America at the age of 38, and later served as general counsel of Central Parking Corporation, MV Transportation, and Tractor Supply Company. As general counsel of these companies, he managed legal affairs and played a key role in successfully completing numerous acquisitions and financings and in resolving complex litigation. At Tractor Supply, Parrish led the company's legal, real estate, risk management, and compliance functions, and served as a member of the executive committee. He advised the board of directors on a wide range of issues, including corporate governance matters. Under his leadership of the company's environmental program, Tractor Supply was named one of Barron's 100 Most Sustainable Companies in America twice. A 1982 graduate of Mercer University School of Law, Parrish served as editor-in-chief of the Mercer Law Review and was a member of the Moot Court Board. He graduated from Mercer’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences with a bachelor’s degree in political science in 1978. He began his legal career as an associate with King & Spalding in 1982.
Recommended Citation
Heminway, Joan; Morning, D'Andrea; and Parrish, Ben, "Panel 1: The Lawyer as Counselor" (2024). Mercer Law Review Symposium. 2.
https://digitalcommons.law.mercer.edu/symposium/parts_of_a_whole/friday/2
Panel 1: The Lawyer as Counselor
Meet the Panelists
Joan MacLeod Heminway is the Rick Rose Distinguished Professor of Law and former interim director of the Institute for Professional Leadership at The University of Tennessee College of Law in Knoxville, Tennessee. She currently serves as a teaching fellow in the Haslam Leadership Scholars program and as a fellow of the C. Warren Neel Center for Corporate Governance, the Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and the Center for the Study of Social Justice at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. When she joined the College of Law faculty in 2000, Heminway brought nearly 15 years of corporate transactional legal practice experience, having worked on public offerings, private placements, mergers, acquisitions, dispositions, and restructurings in the Boston office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP since 1985. Heminway’s principal doctrinal scholarship focuses on securities disclosure law and policy (especially under Rule 10b-5, including insider trading) and incorporated and unincorporated business associations law in the United States (including entrepreneurial and social enterprise governance and finance). Her research and writing also extends to topics in law leadership. She coauthored (with Mark J. Loewenstein, Marc I. Steinberg, and Manning G. Warren, III) a business law text (5th Ed. 2024) Business Enterprises: Legal Structures, Governance, and Policy (Carolina Academic Press). In addition, her edited/coauthored book, Martha Stewart’s Legal Troubles, was released in 2007 (Carolina Academic Press). She has authored numerous articles and book chapters in domestic and international publications.
Heminway is a member of the American Law Institute and a fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the Knoxville Bar Foundation. She is licensed to practice in Tennessee (where she is past chair of the Business Law Section of the Tennessee Bar Association) and Massachusetts (where she is inactive) and has been a registered yoga teacher (Yoga Alliance RYT200) since 2018.
D’Andrea J. Morning serves as vice president, corporate compliance (chief compliance and privacy officer) and in-house legal counsel for Grady Health System. In her role as chief compliance and privacy officer, Morning oversees the compliance and ethics function for the Grady Health System enterprise, which consists of an academic medical center, the largest nursing home in the state of Georgia, EMS operations, and ambulatory clinics. She also represents the health system in various legal matters with specific focus on health care regulatory, corporate governance, and compliance issues. Before becoming the chief compliance and privacy officer, Morning served as senior associate general counsel for Grady Health System. Prior to joining Grady Health System, she was a senior associate at Alston & Bird LLP in the firm’s Health Care Practice Group for six years. Morning earned her undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, from Xavier University of Louisiana in 2004. She earned her Juris Doctorate, cum laude, from Mercer University School of Law in 2007. Morning is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and is certified in health care compliance, health care privacy compliance, and is a certified compliance and ethics professional.
Ben Parrish served as the general counsel of four companies over a 25-year period. He was named senior vice president and general counsel of Smith and Nephew North America at the age of 38, and later served as general counsel of Central Parking Corporation, MV Transportation, and Tractor Supply Company. As general counsel of these companies, he managed legal affairs and played a key role in successfully completing numerous acquisitions and financings and in resolving complex litigation. At Tractor Supply, Parrish led the company's legal, real estate, risk management, and compliance functions, and served as a member of the executive committee. He advised the board of directors on a wide range of issues, including corporate governance matters. Under his leadership of the company's environmental program, Tractor Supply was named one of Barron's 100 Most Sustainable Companies in America twice. A 1982 graduate of Mercer University School of Law, Parrish served as editor-in-chief of the Mercer Law Review and was a member of the Moot Court Board. He graduated from Mercer’s College of Liberal Arts and Sciences with a bachelor’s degree in political science in 1978. He began his legal career as an associate with King & Spalding in 1982.