2025 Conference Agenda

8:00 – 8:30 am – Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:30 – 8:45 am – Annual CAT Meeting

8:45 – 9:00 am – Opening Remarks | Therese Casler – Casler Senior Compass LLC

9:00 – 10:00 am – Why Ethics? And other conservatorship national updates

• Amy Willoughby Bryant – Director Office of Conservatorship Management/ National Guardianship Association President, Conservatorship Association of Tennessee President

10:00 – 10:10 am – Break

10:10 – 11:00 am – Social Security Overview

• Grayson Cannon, Attorney Gullett, Sanford, Robinson & Martin, PLLC

11:00 – 12:00 pm – Communication/Emotional Intelligence-

• Melissa Mancini – Solo Practitioner Law Offices of Melissa R. Mancini

12:00 – 1:00 pm – LUNCH

1:00 – 1:50 pm – From a Clerk and Master’s Point of View: Panel Discussion Representatives from East, Middle and West TN -discussion on conservatorship issues in each region

• Scott Griswold – Clerk and Master of the Chancery Court for Knox County
• Jenny Parker – Master for the Twenty-First Judicial District Court at
  Williamson County
• Albert Wade – Clerk and Master of the Henry County Chancery Court

1:50 – 2:00 pm – Break

2:00 – 2:45 pm – Housing – Panel Discussion:

• Brenda Bryant (Middle TN) – Executive Director of Life of Victory International Christian Ministries – Foreclosure assistance and senior services
• Vanessa Bullock (West TN) – West Tennessee Legal Services Director of Special Projects – Housing services

2:45 – 2:55 pm – Break

2:55 – 3:55 pm – Mental Health Panel

• Dr. Thomas Jenssen – Medical Director of Peninsula Behavioral Health with Covenant Health System
• Holley Russell – Chief Executive Office of TrustPoint Hospital

3:55 – 4:15 pm – Legislative Update & Closing remarks

• Amy Willoughby Bryant, Conservatorship Association of TN President

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*This is a hybrid conference at which attendees and speakers may participate in-person or via Zoom.