Office: Nashville Office

At Yale, Samantha worked as a First Generation and Low-Income Ambassador from 2018-2020.

Meredith’s senior thesis focused on expanding access to community courts and pre-trial diversion programs in highly incarcerated zip codes. Her hope is to use that work and research to inform a career focused on restorative justice practices in the state judiciary.

At Berkeley, Pavel was the acting assistant deputy director for the Nuclear Policy Working Group in 2018, as well as a member of the Nuclear Engineering Student Delegation.

While at Vanderbilt, Ayanna served as Chair of Project I Am, an organization dedicated to the personal and professional development of minority students.

During his time at Duke, Anderson worked as an Operations Associate at Battleground Texas, a GPAC dedicated to supporting national, state and local Democratic Party candidates in Texas.

At the University of Memphis, Erika took a particular interest in criminology, criminal justice, and political psychology.

Prior to joining Sanford Heisler Sharp, Mr. Tepe clerked for the Honorable Sarah A. L. Merriam, United States Magistrate Judge for the District of Connecticut.

Johan has over 17 years of experience in commercial litigation and has tried dozens of cases in state and federal courts representing businesses, individuals and localities.

Prior to joining Sanford Heisler Sharp, Ms. St. Charles was an associate at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer, LLP in Washington, DC, where her practice involved a variety of complex commercial litigation matters in both federal and state courts.

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.