EAST TENNESSEE, TN, February 16, 2023 - Tara Lynn Dutton has been included in Marquis Who's Who. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Leveraging more than two decades of excellence in real estate, business, loss mitigation, foreclosure and short sale law, Ms. Dutton has earned distinction as a leading attorney in her field. In this capacity, she is an attorney at law with her own firm, TL Dutton Law. Since 2015, she has focused her efforts on managing her firm of associates and paralegals who are helping to meet the legal needs of the community, particularly in real estate, estate planning and probate administration. She offers a broad range of services for her clients, including business law, litigation, and contracts. Additionally, her firm handles residential and commercial real estate closings through the division doing business as Professional Title.
Prior to her current role, Ms. Dutton began her career as an attorney starting in 1994 and opened her own law practice and title company in 2007 in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina. Also dedicated to civil advocacy, she sponsors local charitable groups and organizations to present them with donations from the firm's proceeds monthly including the Smoky Mountain Area Rescue Ministries, Wears Valley Ranch, Smoky Mountain Boys and Girls Club, Smoky Mountain Children's Home, Sevier County Food Ministries, SafeHarbour of the Smokies, Great Smoky Mountain Association, Marine Toys for Tots, and Isaiah 117 House. She is honored to have been recently accepted to the 100+ Women Who Care Sevier County.
Prior to embarking on her professional journey, Ms. Dutton distinguished herself early on in high school. Elected as President of the National Honor Society and President of the Latin Society, she was also a staff editor of the yearbook and was awarded President of the Year of the Mid-Hudson Junior Achievement program. Upon obtaining her associates degree from Ulster County Community College, she was awarded an outstanding achievement certificate in Honors Studies upon graduation. Completing her Bachelor of Arts degree at the State University of New York at Buffalo with Magna Cum Laude distinction, Ms. Dutton was recognized by the President and Provost for Excellent Scholarly Achievement. Ms. Dutton was inducted into the premedical honor society Alpha Epsilon Delta and was awarded membership in Phi Betta Kappa by action of the Omicron of New York in May of 1991. Although Ms. Dutton was accepted to medical schools, she chose to embark on the path to a law degree. While attending Ohio Northern University's Claude W. Pettit College of Law, she was elected as a class representative for the student bar association. One of her articles was published in the Journal of Pharmacy and Law and she received an achievement award for public service in high school teaching and commitment to the Street Law Program. Ms. Dutton also earned the American Jurisprudence Award for excellent achievement in the study of criminal law by Lawyers Cooperative Publishing and a Corpus Juris Secundum Award for scholastic excellence in criminal law by West Publishing Corporation. Ms. Dutton completed her third year of law school at the University of South Carolina at Columbia. Her studies were concentrated in Estate Planning, Trust and Probate Administration, and related tax matters. She earned her Juris Doctor degree in 1995 and was sworn into the Supreme Court of South Carolina later that year. Following her years of practice in South Carolina, she was enrolled as an attorney of the Judicial Department of the Supreme Court of the State of Tennessee and obtained her Tennessee law license in 2016. Ms. Dutton holds a Heartsaver CPR and AED certification from Walters State Community College and in 2019, Ms. Dutton graduated from the Leadership Sevier Program. She continues her academic endeavors currently pursuing her Tennessee real estate broker's license and is working on her next publication.
Within the coming years, Ms. Dutton intends to continue her charitable endeavors and is in the process of establishing the Dutton Foundation, which will currently assist local charities in coordinating their efforts to streamline communication amongst themselves and provide aide more efficiently to those in need in the community via a central command post. Long term goals will replicate systems and communications regionally, nationally, and ultimately globally to avoid duplicating efforts, minimize waste, and create a humanitarian supply chain that maximizes aide to the needy with minimal administrative cost.
Ms. Dutton grew up in a household of little means and has worked full time since the age of 15 to put herself through college and graduate school and developing her businesses. She learned to highly value hard work and education as well as the importance of forging her own path. She gives that philosophy back to fuel her work, leading with appreciation and respect for her clients and immersing herself in elevating those in the community around her.
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