As Chambliss, Bahner & Stophel turns the calendar to a new year of providing legal counsel to clients, three of its attorneys are beginning a new chapter of their careers.
As 2024 began, the firm elected Shelton Swafford Chambers, Stephany Pedigo and Logan Threadgill as shareholders of the firm.
“Following a year of excitement and growth, we’re thrilled to continue this momentum with the addition of three new shareholders,” says Mark Cunningham, president and managing shareholder. “Each of these lawyers has shown a steadfast commitment to our community and our clients. They are stellar professionals who strengthen the firm as we move into the new year and beyond.”
As a member of the firm’s estate planning section and a certified public account, Chambers works with high-net-worth clients and family-owned businesses on estate and tax-related matters, including dynasty trusts, charitable trusts, family governance structures and succession planning.
Chambers also helps families navigate multigenerational wealth preservation strategies, provides general consulting for closely held business owners, and provides counseling on trust planning and administration, gifting techniques and charitable planning.
She is a past president of the Estate Planning Council of Chattanooga and the Southeast Tennessee Lawyers Association for Women. She serves on the boards of several nonprofits, is a member of the Chattanooga, Tennessee and American bar associations, the Chattanooga Women’s Leadership Institute and Chattanooga Tax Practitioners, and is a Florence Level member of the Women’s Fund of Greater Chattanooga’s Nightingale Network.
Chambers was recognized in the Best Lawyers in America 2024 list. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Tennessee and UT’s College of Law.
With over 25 years of experience in the legal industry, Pedigo is a member of the firm’s estate planning section and assists clients with estate planning and administration matters.
Her work includes drafting wills, trusts and incapacity documents, as well as representing and advising clients in their roles as executor, personal representative and trustee.
Pedigo’s experience extends to representing clients in litigation, mediations and juvenile proceedings, serving as guardian ad litem in adoption and conservatorship matters, and representing individuals in judicial commitment hearings.
She is a member of the Chattanooga and Tennessee bar associations.
Pedigo graduated cum laude from UT and magna cum laude from Samford University Cumberland School of Law. She is licensed in Tennessee and Georgia.
Threadgill represents clients in a range of business litigation matters in state and federal courts. He also frequently represents clients in arbitrations and mediations for various construction-related matters, including cases involving defective design and construction claims, warranty claims, payment disputes and breach of contract claims.
Additionally, Threadgill advises clients in the financial services industry and represents local, regional and national banks and credit unions with contract claims, loan disputes and bankruptcy matters, including adversary proceedings.
Threadgill is the president of the Chattanooga Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division, serves on the board of the Tennessee Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division, and is a member of the American Bar Association, the American Inns of Court, the Tennessee Association of Construction Counsel, and the Associated General Contractors East Tennessee.
In addition, Threadgill was named in the 2024 Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America list and the 2023 Mid-South Super Lawyers Rising Stars list. He is a graduate of the Chattanooga Chamber Foundation’s Leadership Chattanooga program.
Threadgill earned undergraduate degrees from Wofford College and graduated cum laude from UT’s College of Law.