Bio

Christie Tillapaugh is a Shareholder and member of the Corporate Group. She serves as Chair of the Dentons Cohen & Grigsby (formerly Cohen & Grigsby) Nonprofit and Tax-Exempt Organizations Group. Christie has twenty years of experience serving as outside general counsel and providing corporate governance and strategic transaction-related counseling for a number of organizations, including both tax-exempt and for profit companies. With prior experience from a large global law firm and as in-house counsel in a small legal department of a public company, Christie often serves as an outside general counsel, combining her legal and business acumen to solving client's problems. Christie serves as a member of the Firm’s Executive and Oversight Committee and its Compensation Committee. She previously chaired the Firm's Talent Management Team and Recruiting and Hiring Committee, served as the first director in charge of the Firm's Associates Committee and has served on the Firm’s Diversity & Inclusion Planning.