Our Team

Staff

Executive Director

srhee@nashvilledebate.org 

Starr Rhee serves as the Executive Director of the Nashville Urban Debate League. She is a Nashville native and an alumna of NUDL. She previously worked as a public high school teacher in Washington, DC and Cambridge, MA where she taught Social Studies and coached debate. She earned her Bachelors in Government and her Masters in Education from Harvard University. In her free time, she enjoys reading, baking, and exploring new restaurants. 

Board of Directors

Officers

Chair of the Board of Directors

Rob works as a finance lawyer, representing banks, direct lenders and private equity firms in complex transactions, primarily in the healthcare industry.  He also represents the Tennessee Titans in their league-wide financings. Rob is a partner at Holland & Knight, and its predecessor in Tennessee, Waller Lansden.  Rob is a native Nashvillian, and he and his wife raised his three adult children in Nashville.

Vice Chair

Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison 

Treasurer

Deloitte

Westlake Restaurant Management

Board Members

James Lawson High School

Director of Debate at Montgomery Bell Academy

Executive Director Emeritus

General Counsel at Functional Pathways

Jamie Thompson

K&L Gates

Tennessee Bar Association

Director of Debate at University School of Nashville