Meet Charlotte and Kristen!

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Charlotte, a native of Chattanooga, is a graduate of UT Chattanooga and South Carolina School of Law. 

Charlotte has dedicated her career to serving children and families in the Chattanooga area. Charlotte began her legal career as a child support enforcement attorney, where she worked on hundreds of child support cases.   She spent five years as Associate General Counsel for the Department of Children’s Services (DCS).  During her time with the State, she litigated hundreds of child welfare and termination of parental rights cases. For more than a decade,  Charlotte's practice has focused on divorce, adoption/termination of parental rights, custody, child welfare law, Guardian ad Litem work, and child support matters. Charlotte is an adjunct professor  at Chattanooga State Community College in the Paralegal Studies program; an adjunct at Georgia State University College of Law; and a Tennessee Rule 31 listed mediator.

Kristen, a native of Chickamauga, Georgia, just outside Chattanooga, is a graduate of UT Chattanooga and Georgia State University College of Law.

Kristen's draw to the courtroom began early. She began an internship with the Hamilton County District Attorney's Office her junior year of college and never looked back. After law school, she returned to the DA's office, where she prosecuted cases ranging from misdemeanor DUIs, to aggravated child abuse, and homicide until 2016. 

She then spent a decade in private practice, both running her own practice and serving as a partner at a mid-sized Chattanooga firm. Her practice centered on family law, including divorce and custody litigation, along with business litigation and criminal defense. In August 2026, Kristen returned to the District Attorney's Office.

Kristen is an adjunct professor at Georgia State University College of Law and a Tennessee Rule 31 listed mediator.