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Puryear & Noonan is a public accounting firm that specializes in serving nonprofits, individuals and businesses with their tax, audit, compliance, bookkeeping, consulting and exit strategy needs.

Our Mission: To create great experiences for our clients and team.

In 1962, William Puryear began offering public accounting services in Downtown Nashville with the simple goal of helping clients. Over the next several decades he brought on several partners as the firm grew and the firm became known as Puryear, Hamilton, Hausman & Wood. In 1999, Michael McKerley & Spike Noonan founded McKerley & Noonan with the same philosophy as William Puryear – helping clients and creating a family friendly work environment. Over the next 18 years, McKerley & Noonan grew during which Susan Keffer and Justin Schellenberg came on as partners.

Over the years, the two firms developed a professional working relationship, and on January 1, 2019 the two firms decided to merge in order to better serve our client and employees. The ‘helping others’ philosophy continues on in the combined firm.

Meet the Team

Leadership

Justin Schellenberg, CPA

CEO
Justin is the Chief Executive Officer of the firm and splits his time between leading the firm and working with clients. Originally from Orlando, Just
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Stephanie Richerson, CPA

Audit Partner, CPO

Stephanie joined William Puryear & Co. in 1996 and works in the audit

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Susan Keffer, CPA

Partner-in-charge of Tax
Susan is the head of P&N’s Tax Department. A native Nashvillian, Susan received her accounting degree from Belmont University after study at Denve
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Michael McKerley, CPA

Tax Partner
Michael started his accounting career in 1986 after graduating from the University of Tennessee with his undergraduate and Masters degree in accountin
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Jami Pope, CPA

Audit Partner, CFO
Jami is one of the members in charge of attest services. In the attest field, his passion is providing audit services for his clients. While on locati
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Ron Wood, CPA

Tax Partner
Ron is a Partner in our tax department working primary with high net worth individuals and their businesses. He is a graduate of Middle Tennessee Stat
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Sean Queener, CPA

Tax Partner
Sean is a partner in our tax department. He has experience with many different industries, and primarily works with individuals, businesses, and trust
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Jeff Hausman, CPA

Partner Emeritus
Jeff has been part of the Nashville Community since 1984. After graduating from the University of Notre Dame in 1979, he began his professional career
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Managers & Supervisors

Sherry Conner, CPA

Senior Manager, Tax Dept.
Sherry is a member of our tax department and has 20+ years’ experience in many areas of taxation including corporations, partnerships, and high net wo
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Marilyn Place, EA

Senior Manager, Tax Dept.
Marilyn is a manager in our tax department who works with non-profit organizations, for-profit businesses and individuals on their tax reporting. She
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Michelle Bramel, CPA

Senior Manager, Tax Dept.
Michelle is a senior tax manager. Originally from Springfield, MO, Michelle received her accounting degree from Missouri State University. Michelle an
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Catherine Denson, CPA

Senior Manager, Audit Dept.
Catherine is a senior manager in the audit department with over thirty years’ experience in a variety of fields with a particular focus on non-profit
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Troy Tschantz, CPA

Senior Manager, Tax Dept.
Troy is a Senior Manager in the tax service department where he spends most of his time consulting with clients on tax planning and preparation of bus
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Jessica Gillis, CPA

Senior Manager, Audit Dept.
Jessica is an experienced auditor with industry expertise in not-for-profits, contractors, hospitality, private equity groups and employee benefit pla
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Nessa Ensey, CPA

Senior Manager, Audit Dept.

Nessa is a manager in the audit department. Prior to joining Puryear & Noonan, CPAs in 2019, she worked in public accoun

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Kels Fitzpatrick, CPA

Manager, Audit Dept.
After spending twenty years in nearly every capacity of a small family business in Nashville, Kels decided that the time had come to follow through wi
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Nick Bellenfant, CPA

Manager, Audit Dept.
Nick Bellenfant is currently a senior in the audit department where he spends most of his time working on reports, performing audit procedures, and wo
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Kimberly Coward, CPA

Manager, Tax Dept.
Kimberly is a tax manager in our general tax department whose previous experience includes work as a controller at a car dealership, and a full-time p
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Bethany Hovater, CPA

Manager, Tax Dept.
Bethany is a Certified Public Accountant and a tax manager with Puryear and Noonan, CPAs. She prepares tax returns for corporations, partnerships, non
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Patrick McInnis

Manager, Audit Dept.
Patrick is a senior accountant in our audit/attest department where he spends most of his time on audits of for profit and non-profit organizations an
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Jenna Moyer

Manager, Accounting Dept.
Jenna is an Account Manager in our Accounting Services Department where she manages the bookkeeping and daily operations for our clients.  Born and ra
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Ashley Nyquist, CPA

Manager, Tax Dept.
Ashley is a manager in our tax department. She spends the majority of her time preparing and reviewing individual and business income tax returns. She
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Barry Grimsley

Director of Accounting Services
Barry is the Director of our Accounting Services Department where he helps supervise and manage the daily operations of the department. Originally fro
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Seniors & Staff

Rachel LeGros

Staff Accountant, Tax Dept.
Rachel was born and raised in Northern Illinois and moved to Clarksville in 2020. She received her bachelor’s degree in business administration &
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Emerald Randolph

Staff Accountant, Tax Dept.

Emerald is from Baxter, Tennessee. She received her bachelor's degree in accounting with minors in English and Social Scienc

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Lee Smith

Staff Accountant, Tax Dept.
Lee was born and raised in Bristol, TN, but moved to Nashville with his wife Emily in 2023 to be closer to her family. He graduated from East Tennesse
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Karla Majano

Staff Accountant, Tax Dept.
Karla is a follower of Jesus. She graduated from Lipscomb University 2022 with a degree in Accounting and joined Puryear and Noonan after two years in
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Elizabeth Sams, CPA

Senior Accountant, Audit Dept.

Elizabeth is a senior accountant in the audit department. Before joining Puryear and Noonan, CPAs in 2023, Elizabeth work

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Seth Coffie

Senior Accountant, Audit Dept.
Seth is a senior tax accountant with a primary focus on preparation of business, individual and nonprofit tax returns. He is a native of Jonesborough,
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Addison Daws

Staff Accountant, Tax Dept.
Addison graduated from Tennessee State University where he earned a bachelor's degree in Accounting. Prior to joining the Puryear and Noonan team Addi
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Jessica Davis

Staff Accountant, Accounting Dept.
Jessica Davis is 29 years old and grew up in a small town called Unionville, TN. She graduated from Georgia Career Institute in 2012 for Cosmetology a
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Emily Beaulieu

Senior Accountant, Accounting Dept.

Emily is an Account Manager in our Accounting Services Department where she manages the daily operations for our clients. Na

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Caleb Wood, CPA

Senior Accountant, Tax Dept.
Caleb was born and raised in Brentwood, TN. He received his BBA in accounting at Lipscomb University and his MS in accounting at Maryville University
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Caleb Gerdom, CPA

Senior Accountant, Tax Dept.

Caleb is a senior accountant in our general tax department. After teaching mathematics for several years, he attended Lipscomb Universit

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Nicole Knox, CPA

Senior Accountant, Tax Dept.

Nicole is a senior tax accountant where she primarily focuses her time on the preparation of individual and business tax returns. She is

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Reed Mitchell

Senior Accountant, Tax Dept.
Reed is a follower of Jesus and is married to his best friend.  Together, they have two daughters. Reed graduated from MTSU in December of 2020 with a
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Parker Darnell

Senior Accountant, Audit Dept.
Parker is a staff account in the Audit department.  He recently relocated to Nashville from hometown of Greeneville, TN. Parker is a Summa Cum Laude g
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Olivia Simmons

Senior Accountant, Tax Dept.
Olivia is a Senior Tax Accountant specializing in tax preparation for partnerships, corporations, individuals and trusts. Before joining Puryear and N
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Logan Dorris

Senior Accountant, Tax Dept.
Logan was born and raised in Portland, Tennessee.  He received his Bachelors’ degree in Accountancy with a minor in Finance from East Tennessee State
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Kevin Thomas, CPA

Staff Accountant, Tax Dept.
Kevin was born in San Diego, CA and moved to Nashville at a young age. He graduated from Furman University with a Bachelor's in Business Administratio
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Joseph Jones

Staff Accountant, Tax Dept.
Joseph graduated from Middle Tennessee State University in 2021 with a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting. He started with Puryear & Noonan in the in
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Liz Haynes

Senior Accountant, Audit Dept.
Liz is a senior in the audit department. She started her accounting career after graduating from Tennessee Technological University in 2000. She spent
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Olga Smith

Senior Accountant, Audit Dept.
Olga started as a staff accountant in 2016 and enjoys working with audit, tax and bookkeeping clients. She graduated from the National Aviation Univer
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Brenda Potts

Senior Accountant, Accounting Dept.
Brenda is a senior accountant focusing in accounting services. She started her accounting career working part-time in public accounting in 1977 while
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Courtney Isabell

Senior Accountant, Accounting Dept.
Courtney Small is an Assistant Account Manager in the account services department where she processes bank and credit card reconciliations, transactio
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Chris Golden

Manager, Tax Dept.
Chris is a Nashville native who graduated from Lipscomb with a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting. Chris has worked with local CPA firms in their tax and
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Rachel Garland

Staff Accountant, Accounting Dept.
Rachel is part of the Administrative department and works in the Cool Springs office. She is originally from Nashville but lived in Florida for 14 yea
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Mary Jo Grimsley

Senior Accountant, Accounting Dept.
Mary Jo recently joined the firm.  Her past experience includes bookkeeping and payroll for a road construction/pipeline contracting company and also
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Administrators

Annie Rushton

Staff, Admin Dept.
With over five years of CPA firm administrative support experience, Annie serves as Administrative Receptionist at Puryear & Noonan, CPAs. She ori
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Lindsay Thompson

Executive Assistant
Lindsay was born in 1985, in Atlanta GA, but has lived and worked most of her life in the Nashville area. She has been an entrepreneur for the past 17
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Anela Odzakovic

Staff, Admin Dept.
Anela is originally from Bosnia and moved to Nashville in 1999.  She Graduated from Lipscomb University with a Business Administration degree focusing
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Nicole Garnett

Staff, Admin Dept.
Nicole is a part of our Administrative department; originally starting with McKerley & Noonan in 2008 Originally from Georgia, moving to TN in 199
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Katina Washington

Administrator, Tax Dept., Human Resources
Katina is responsible for Human Resources and Tax Admin for the firm. She is originally from Maryland and received her Bachelors from the University o
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Senita Baker

Office Manager
Senita is the Office Manager and has the pleasure of trying to keep everyone in order! Senita graduated from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville wi
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