Faculty Profile: Amy Bryant

Amy Willoughby Bryant is an attorney, educator and nationally recognized leader in conservatorship and guardianship. She serves as director of Nashville’s Office of Conservatorship Management, where she oversees the office’s staff, programs and strategic initiatives and works with courts, attorneys, social service professionals and community partners on conservatorship matters. She also serves as an adjunct professor at Belmont University College of Law, where she teaches Elder Law.

Prior to joining the Office of Conservatorship Management in 2018, Bryant served with TennCare, including as  lead attorney for its Litigation Unit. Earlier in her career, she owned Willoughby & Associates, where her practice included family, juvenile and real estate law. She has been licensed to practice law in Tennessee since 2007 and earned her J.D. from Saint Louis University School of Law and her B.B.A., cum laude, in economics and finance from Tennessee State University.

Bryant is a frequent speaker and author on conservatorship, guardianship, leadership, mentorship and attorney well-being. Her presentations have addressed topics including leadership, burnout prevention, mindfulness in legal practice and mentoring across generations, in addition to her extensive work educating legal and professional audiences about conservatorship and guardianship. Her writing has appeared in the Tennessee Bar Journal, The Tennessean and other publications, and she has contributed to the National Guardianship Association’s annual Legal & Legislative Review.

Her professional and community leadership has included service as president of the National Guardianship Association, president of the Conservatorship Association of Tennessee, a member of the Tennessee Bar Association Board of Governors, a Nashville Bar Association board trustee and president of the Napier Looby Bar Association. Her honors include the Nashville Business Journal’s Women of Influence and Best of the Bar recognitions, Leadership Tennessee NEXT, the B. Riney Green Award and the Napier Looby Bar Association President’s Award.