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Sharon Guffee is the Juvenile Court Judge in Williamson County, Tennessee. Judge Guffee served 8 years in juvenile services as Child Support Magistrate and Juvenile Magistrate before being elected Juvenile Judge. She has now served 10 years as the Williamson County Juvenile Judge. During the past eighteen years, Judge Guffee has heard 30,070 cases. Judge Guffee continues to work with local advocates, leaders, and others for the betterment of the community. For more information: https://www.reelectjudgeguffee.com

Brittany Barnett is a lawyer who left a lucrative private practice in corporate law to fight for justice. In this episode, she tells how her own family experience guided her and how she ultimately knew the job she always wanted was not the job she needed.

Abby Rubenfeld is a legend. She's been on the front line for equal rights for decades. In this episode, we discuss how Abby "got her quill" and how the fight for equal rights for women is far from over.

Josh Windham is a lawyer with the Institute for Justice. Josh is currently the lead counsel for a case involving the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency ("TWRA") and the TWRA's practice of entering private property without a warrant, and without permission from or notice to the landowner for the purpose of surveilling the landowner and their guests.

Kevin Sharp is a lawyer in Nashville who resigned as a federal judge to work on criminal justice reform. In this episode, we take a deep dive into the strange and terrible tragedy that is the story of Leonard Peltier.

Judge Sharp is the Managing Partner of Sanford Heisler Sharp’s Nashville office, which opened in the spring of 2017. He joined Sanford Heisler Sharp after serving as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee from May 2011 through April 2017, serving from 2014 to 2017 as the Court’s Chief Judge.