Bench & Bar September/October 2025

WHO, WHAT, WHEN & WHERE

He plans to split his time between the Nashville and Huntsville offices. Stites & Harbison has three attorneys admitted to practice in Alabama who will also spend time in the new office. The new Huntsville office is located near the Huntsville Medical District,

to the bar, he began a distinguished career of service with the Social Security Administra tion, a career he held for 49 years. He started his journey in the Louisville Office of Hearings Operations, where he worked from June 1976 until September 1997. During his time there, he progressed through various roles including staff attorney, senior attorney, and supervisory

immediately adjacent to downtown Huntsville. Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, LLP , is pleased to welcome Molly Gamble to its Louisville office. Gamble will be joining the firm’s trusts, estates & personal planning service team. She will concen trate her practice in the areas of estate planning, trust administration, probate and special needs planning. Prior to joining Wyatt, Gamble was a trust principal and IRA specialist at a regional investment firm. Gamble received her J.D from

attorney. In October 1997, he was appointed as a United States Administrative Law Judge. He then served as Hearing Office Chief Administrative Law Judge of the Morgantown, W.Va., Office of Hearings Operations until April 2006. He also served as Acting Chief Administrative Law Judge in the Pittsburgh Office of Hearings Operations, and as Assistant Regional Chief Administrative Law Judge for the Philadelphia Region. For the last 19 years, Judge Slahta served as an Administrative Law Judge in the Tampa, Fla., Office of Hearings Operations, including holding the position of Acting Chief Administrative Law Judge of the St, Petersburg, Fla., Office of Hearings Operations. After an extraordinary career spanning almost five decades, Judge Slahta retired on June 1, 2025, and now resides in Tampa. Stites & Harbison, PLLC , has opened a new office in Huntsville, Ala., representing the law firm’s first office in Alabama. Construction attorney Joshua K. Chesser , who joined Stites & Harbison in 2024, will serve as the office executive member of the Huntsville office.

the University of Louisville Brandeis School of Law where she gradu ated, magna cum laude and served as the vice president of finance for the Student Bar Association. She earned her undergraduate degree from the University of Kentucky.

Louis I. Waterman will chair the 2026 Kentucky Derby Festival. Waterman, who has served on the board for 29 years, was elected by the Festi val’s Board of Directors at their annual meeting. Waterman is a member of Goldberg Simpson, LLC , and is a leading family law attorney in

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