Ally is a member of Butler Snow’s Regulatory and Government group, serving as a Government Relations Advisor. She also works with the Regulatory and Government and Commercial Litigation groups in regulatory and litigation matters, including matters involving public utilities, insurance, and commercial litigation cases before Tennessee’s appellate courts.
Overview
Ally is a member of Butler Snow’s Regulatory and Government group, serving as a Government Relations Advisor. She also works with the Regulatory and Government and Commercial Litigation groups in regulatory and litigation matters, including matters involving public utilities, insurance, and commercial litigation cases before Tennessee’s appellate courts.
Practice Areas
Experience
- Worked on a host of legislative, advocacy, and public policy issues and initiatives covering a broad range of industries, from insurance, healthcare, automotive, education, agriculture, and telecommunications and broadband, to name a few.
- Drafted countless pieces of legislation, from comprehensive reform of regulatory frameworks to highly specific bills limited in focus.
- Worked on administrative law, regulatory, and litigation matters, including appellate work in commercial litigation matters pending before Tennessee’s state appellate courts.
- Served as a senior law clerk to the late Justice Cornelia A. Clark and a law clerk to Justice Roger A. Page and Justice Jeffrey S. Bivins.
- During her time at the Tennessee Supreme Court, Ally gained valuable experience in all aspects of the appellate process and honed her legal research and writing skills, drafting opinions on various criminal and civil matters, including health care liability, education law, and constitutional law.
Distinctions
- BL Rankings, The Best Lawyers in America®
- Ones to Watch, Administrative/Regulatory Law, 2026
- Ones to Watch, Government Relations Practice, 2026
- Thomson Reuters Super Lawyers®
- Mid-South Rising Stars, Government Relations, 2023-2024
Bar Admissions
- Tennessee, 2019
Education
- Belmont University, J.D., cum laude, 2019
- Published in Volume VI, Issue I of Belmont Law Review
- Belmont Law Review, Submissions & Transcripts Editor
- Belmont Board of Advocates, President
- Recipient of the Scribes, The American Society of Legal Writers, 2020 Brief Writing Award
- Regional Champion Advocate, American Bar Association National Appellate Advocacy Competition, 2019
- Advocate, New York City Bar National Moot Court Competition Team, 2017
- Best Performance Awards: Constitutional Law; Government Relations Practicum; Family Law
- Research and Teacher’s Assistant to Professor Abbie DeBlasis
- Middle Tennessee State University, B.S., Political Science, 2014
- Clerkship, The Honorable Justice Cornelia A. Clark, Tennessee Supreme Court, 2019-2021
- Clerkship, The Honorable Chief Justice Roger A. Page, Tennessee Supreme Court, 2021
- Clerkship, The Honorable Justice Jeffrey S. Bivins, Tennessee Supreme Court, 2021-2022
Associations
- Tennessee Bar Association
- Lawyers’ Association for Women, Marion Griffin Chapter
- American Bar Association
- Section of State and Local Government Law
Papers, Presentations & Publications
- Panelist, "Crop Protection Panel," Tennessee Farm Bureau Presidents Conference, August 7, 2025.
- Allyson Lynch, Note, Undefined: A Call to Recognize, and Advocate for, Long-Term English Learners, 6 Belmont L. Rev. 210 (2018).