Legal Developments for Women in the Workplace
Take advantage of this summertime opportunity to attend LAW's July CLE with panelists, Anne Hunter, Melody Fowler-Green, and Elizabeth Gedmark as they discuss the latest on the PUMP Act, Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, EFAA and more!
Join from your air-conditioned office, while you are on vacation or watching your kids at the pool!
Panelists:
Anne Hunter runs the Hunter Law Firm, which specializes in representing victims of discrimination in the workplace. She has experience in state court, federal court, the EEOC, and alternative dispute resolution. Anne received an undergraduate degree in English Literature from DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, before going on to graduate from DePaul University College of Law in Chicago. She has been a licensed attorney since 1995. She moved to Middle Tennessee in 2000 and has raised her three children here. She enjoys traveling with her family and remaining an active member of the Middle Tennessee community.
Elizabeth Gedmark joined A Better Balance in 2011. Since 2014, when the Southern Office, based in Nashville, was launched, Elizabeth has leveraged the power of the law to help families in the South suffering from discrimination at work and to advance more family-friendly laws and policies. Elizabeth is a co-author of the book, Babygate: How to Survive Pregnancy and Parenting in the Workplace. She is also the author of an article published in the Clearinghouse Review, “Using Pregnancy Discrimination Claims to Fight Poverty.” Elizabeth has served on the New York City Bar Sex and Law Committee, IWPR’s Status of Women in the South Advisory Committee, and the Nashville Mayor’s Council on Gender Equity. She has a J.D. from the New York University School of Law and a B.A. cum laude from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC. As a part of NYU Law’s Federal Defender Clinic, Elizabeth argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In law school, she interned with the ACLU of Tennessee and the New York Legal Assistance Group’s Special Litigation Unit. She was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky.
Mel Fowler-Green is an attorney in private practice at Yezbak Law Offices, a firm that specializes in plaintiff-side employment and civil rights cases. She was formerly executive director of the Metro Human Relations Commission. Throughout four mayoral administrations, Ms. Fowler-Green led the agency’s work on policies related to inclusion, equity, LGBT rights and immigrant access to government services. Out of her accomplishments, Fowler-Green points to completing more community-based research, like a three-part booklet series on Nashville’s affordable housing crisis. Prior to that role, Ms. Fowler-Green was the Managing Attorney at Southern Migrant Legal Services where she Investigated and litigated complex labor, employment and civil rights cases on behalf of farmworkers and other migrant workers. She has a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center, an M.A. in Women's Studies from the University of Cincinnati, and a B.A. in Technical Theatre from the University of Michigan-Flint.
