Nashville chapter supports University of Tennessee scholarship.

• Position: Chapter News

Out of sadness can come some wonderful things, and that is precisely what happened this fall when members of the tax community in Nashville joined together to fund a scholarship in memory of Casey Adams, a 23-year old graduate of the University of Tennessee's Masters of Accounting program, who died unexpectedly earlier this year.

Casey, who had begun her career in the Nashville office of Ernst & Young, was the daughter of Donna Adams, Senior Director Tax Services & Compliance at Genesco and a founding member of the Nashville TEI chapter. Following Casey's death, members of the Nashville Chapter, joined together with the Big 4 accounting firms and the University of Tennessee in establishing a scholarship in her honor to the university's Master of Accountancy program. The...