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Professional Overview

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Shannon specializes in the areas of forensic accounting, business valuation, and litigation support services. She provides consulting expert and expert witness services in marital dissolution (divorce) and commercial litigation matters. Her business valuation experience encompasses a broad range of companies and industries, and has been used in litigation, merger and acquisition transactions, healthcare regulatory settings, financial statement preparation, succession and estate planning, gift tax returns, and shareholder buy-in/buy-out transactions. Shannon recently served in a national professional leadership role related to forensic and litigation services.

As a certified public accountant since 1993, Shannon has spent the last 30 years working with small businesses and their owners, with the last 18 devoted to forensic and valuation services.

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Education, Credentials and Special Training

• Certified Public Accountant
• Accredited in Business Valuation
• Certified in Financial Forensics
• B.B.A, Accounting, summa cum laude, University of Tennessee

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Professional Affiliations

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
• Chattanooga Women’s Leadership Institute
• American Bar Association
• American Health Lawyers Association
• Tennessee Society of Certified Public Accountants

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Civic and Community Activities

• Tennessee Democracy Network, Treasurer
• American Heart Association Circle of Red / Go Red for Women (2015)
• Signal Mountain Middle-High School Parent-Teacher Association, Past Board Member
• Signal Mountain Youth Baseball League, Past Treasurer
• Thrasher Elementary School Parent-Teacher Association, Past Treasurer