A fifth-generation White County, Tennessean, and attorney Caroline Sapp has returned to the Upper Cumberland region. Caroline joined Blake Barnes and will be the managing attorney of the firm’s Tennessee office (located in Macey Dawson Gurley's building, at 111 W. Bockman Way, Sparta, TN). She will focus her practice on helping others who have been injured by the negligent acts of wrongdoers across the state. Prior to joining Blake, Sapp was an attorney at the Law Office of John Day, P.C., from 2014 to 2020, where she represented clients in personal injury matters.
Even though, Sapp has lived in the Nashville area since graduating law school, she has been serving the Upper Cumberland region by volunteering at Legal Aid Society clinics in Cookeville, including the Debt Collection Clinic and Tornado Victims Clinic, Joint Operations for Veterans (Legal Services Volunteer), and Putnam County Schools "Fairy Tales on Trial" Mock Trial Competition. She is the current president of the Upper Cumberland Young Lawyers Association (2019-2021) and has organized and planned local events, such as the local swearing-in ceremony for new attorneys and spearheaded an event to collect and donate backpacks, plus school supplies, for children living in foster care in the Upper Cumberland (in 2019, 289 backpacks, plus school supplies, were donated to DCS).
Caroline graduated with a B.S. and M.A. from Tennessee Tech. She earned her J.D. at the University of Memphis, Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law. While at Memphis, she served as a research assistant to Professor Jodi L. Wilson and interned for the Honorable Bernice B. Donald in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She was selected as editor-in-chief of the Mental Health Law & Policy Journal, a Grading Committee Member on the Moot Court Board, selected as one of three oral advocates on the Wagner Labor and Employment Law Moot Court team where she traveled to New York to compete against other teams from all over the U.S., Secretary of the International Law Society, a Student Ambassador, and a Student Orientation Leader.
She is on the Board of the Lawyers Association for Women, Marion Griffin Chapter and serves as a Managing Editor and Co-Chair of the Nashville Bar Journal where she was named “Contributor of the Year” in 2016 for her work on the Journal. She was selected as a Class Member of the Young Leaders Council, Nashville Class 76 in 2021, a Class Member for the Tennessee Bar Association Leadership Law class in 2020, a member of the Nashville Bar Foundation Leadership Law class in 2019, and as a Mid-South Rising Star in Super Lawyers Magazine in 2018, 2019, and 2020. She also has been published in law reviews and bar journals.
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