BARBARA MAYDEN

Barbara Mendel Mayden began her legal career with King & Spalding in Atlanta in 1976, and practiced for 30 years, most recently at Bass, Berry & Sims in Nashville, as a member of its Corporate and Securities Group.  Prior to moving to Nashville in 1995, she practiced transactional business law in New York, most recently at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, and prior to that, at White & Case.

Barbara has been active in the American Bar Association for over 30 years. Barbara represented the State of New York on the American Bar Association's Board of Governors, serving on the Board's Executive Committee and as Chair of the Board's Operations Committee, and is currently serving a second term, elected as a representative of the ABA's sections.  She has been a member of the ABA House of Delegates for 25 years and has chaired its Committee on Rules and Calendar.  Barbara has served as Chairperson of the Young Lawyers Division and as a charter member of the Commission on Women in the Profession as well as the Commission on Opportunities for Minorities in the Profession, and chaired the appointments process for four ABA Presidents.  Barbara was a long-time officer of the Business Law Section, serving, among other things, as Chair of the Section and as Editor of The Business Lawyer, and for 20 years, as the Section's representative in the ABA's House of Delegates.  In 1998 Barbara was awarded the Business Law Section's "Glass Cutter Award," awarded annually to a woman who has cut through barriers to attain high accomplishment in business law. In addition, Barbara has served as a member of the Board of Visitors of the University of Georgia School of Law and chaired the Bond Attorneys' Workshop.  She is an active member of the Tennessee Bar Association, a member of the American Law Institute and has been elected a Fellow of the American, New York State, Tennessee and Nashville Bar Foundations.  The Tennessee Bar Association recognized Barbara's contributions to the profession by sponsoring a reception in her honor at the Midyear Meeting of the American Bar Association in 2010.