Our Team

With twenty-four years of legal experience in complex family law litigation, Ms. Putnam is exactly the attorney you want on your side. Ms. Putnam was born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee and graduated from the University School of Nashville in 1993. She attended Boston University and graduated from Vanderbilt University in 1997 with a Bachelor of Science. Ms. Putnam received her Juris Doctorate from the University of Memphis in 2001. While in law school, she clerked for Judge Hamilton Gayden, Circuit Court Judge of Davidson County, and after graduating law school, she practiced for nine years in a small family law firm in Memphis, TN before starting her own practice in 2010. Since then, Ms. Putnam has grown her practice in both Tennessee and Mississippi with her primary focus being family law and civil litigation. 

Ms. Putnam is licensed to practice in Tennessee and Mississippi. She is admitted to practice before the Tennessee Appellate Court, Tennessee Supreme Court, and the Appellate and Supreme Courts of Mississippi, the United States District Court of the Western Section of Tennessee, the United States Court of Appeal for the 6th Circuit, the United States District Court for the Western Section of Arkansas, the United States Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit, Unites States Bankruptcy Court, and the United States Supreme Court. Ms. Putnam is also a Rule 31 listed family law Mediator with the State of Tennessee.

Mrs. Cooper received her Associate of Applied Science in Paralegal Studies from Southwest Tennessee Community College (STCC) in 2015. In addition to graduating Summa Cum Laude, Mrs. Cooper received the Outstanding Speech Student Award, Outstanding Paralegal Student of the year award and earned recognition on the Dean’s List, each semester. Mrs. Cooper was also a member of the Lambda Epsilon Chi National Honor Society, as well as the Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society.

On top of her academic achievements, Mrs. Cooper competed on behalf of Southwest Tennessee Community College as a member of the two-person Moot Court Team at the Tennessee Intercollegiate State Legislature in 2014. Mrs. Cooper also served as a student member of the Southwest Tennessee Community College Advisory Board from 2014 to 2015.