Linda Warren Seely is a licensed Tennessee lawyer and is a listed Rule 31 Mediator in the State of Tennessee. She is a certified mediation instructor with a special emphasis on domestic violence and is a past Chair of the Dispute Resolution Section for the Tennessee Bar Association. She currently works as the Director of the Section of Dispute Resolution for the American Bar Association.

Linda was elected to the Board of Directors for the Memphis Bar Association and served President for the Association in 2013. She received the Association of Women Attorney’s Marion Griffin-Frances Loring Award in January of 2014 in recognition of outstanding achievements in and for the legal profession and in April 2015, Linda was recognized by the Jackson Sun and the Business and Professional Women’s Association as a Sterling Award winner for being one of the 20 most influential women in West Tennessee. Before she took her current position, Linda was elected to the Board of Trustees for the Tennessee Bar Foundation and as a member of the Board of Directors of the CASA program in Madison County for 2015-2016. She left her position in Memphis as Director of Pro Bono Projects at Memphis Area Legal Services (where she worked from 2004-2016) to take the position of Director of the Dispute Resolution Section of the American Bar Association in Washington D.C in September of 2016. In March of 2017, she received the Grayford Gray Award from the Tennessee Association of Professional Mediators and in April of 2019 was recognized for her service to the ABA Section of Dispute Resolution with the Chair’s Award.

She currently serves on the Advisory Committee for the Greenbelt Time Bank and on the Board of the Old Greenbelt Theatre and most recently served on the Greenbelt Housing Incorporated Cooperative Housing Board of Directors and the Board of Directors for the Internet Bar Organization, and lives in Greenbelt, Maryland with her husband, Carl.