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Margaret M. Chesney, Firm Partner. Margaret is a member of the American, Tennessee, and Memphis Bar Associations and is a member of the Family Law Sections of each of those associations. Margaret is the Treasurer of the Family Law Section of the Memphis Bar Association. Margaret is a member of the Alternative Family Section of the American Bar Association Family Law Section. She served on the Board of Directors for the Memphis Bar Association Young Lawyers Division in 2005 and 2006. Margaret was an associate member of the Leo S. Bearman American Inns of Court in 2003-05. She is admitted to practice law in the Supreme Court of Tennessee; the Tennessee Court of Appeals, Western Division; the U.S. District Court, Western District of Tennessee; and the U.S. District Court, Eastern District.

Margaret was the treasurer for the Family Law Section of the Memphis Bar Association in 2007-2008. Margaret was also in the Memphis Bar Association’s Leadership Forum for the 2008-2009 year.

Margaret is involved in her community. She is a member of both Young at Art at the Dixon Gallery and Gardens and BRAVO Memphis, the young adult group of the Greater Memphis Arts Council. She serves on the Executive Committee of the Young Adult LeBonheur Leaders and previously served on the St. Mary's Alumnae Board.

Margaret was a presenter for a series of Child Support Seminars, open to the public, in the spring of 2007. Margaret co-authored "Faith and Divorce" with Rebecca M. Miller, Esq., which was included in the materials for the Continuing Legal Education presentation for the American Bar Association Family Law Section annual meeting in Monterrey, California, in April 2007. Margaret will be presenting "Beyond Child Support" with Robert Vance, CPA, CVA, CFP, for a Continuing Legal Education presentation at the American Bar Association meeting in Memphis, Tennessee, in October 2007.

When not practicing law, Margaret enjoys exercising, reading, traveling, and spending time with family, friends, and her English bulldog, Daisy. If asked whom Margaret most admires, she says her parents.