Faculty Profile: Heidi Bundren

Bundren serves as the organization’s chief legal advisor and provides direction on all legal matters impacting the team, Bridgestone Arena, Ford Ice Center and the Preds Ice Center in Bellevue. Additionally, she is extensively involved in the organization’s human resources, labor and employment matters and works closely with the vendors that work with the Predators and Bridgestone Arena on a daily basis. She joined the organization in 2015 as Senior Counsel, was promoted to Assistant General Counsel in 2016 and entered her current position in October of 2017.

What Bundren is most proud of, is the organization’s consistency in continuously making strides to reach its ONE GOAL of becoming the number one sports and entertainment venue in the United States with its centerpiece as the Stanley Cup Champion Nashville Predators hockey team. As the organization grows, its fanbase and economic impact in the community grow alongside it. The Nashville Predators are proud to be recognized year after year by its outstanding venue, dedicated staff, tireless community outreach and city efforts, and envied workplace culture through international and national publications and awards. Bundren is honored to work for a company that consistently sets pace and makes historic achievements while doing so.

Bundren began her career as a consultant at KPMG Consulting (currently BearingPoint), which offers global business consulting and advisory services. Prior to working for the Predators, she spent two years as a briefing attorney at the First Court of Appeals of Texas and more than five years at Haynes and Boone, a Texas-based AmLaw 100 U.S. law firm. Bundren’s practice has been varied, but has been concentrated in litigation and employment law matters. 

Bundren earned a BA in business administration and marketing from the University of Saint Thomas in 1999 and a Juris Doctorate from the South Texas College of Law in 2005. A native of Houston, Texas, she now resides in Nashville with her husband, Brandon, and two sons, Riley and Rhett.