Before forming his own firm, Mr. Blackledge’s professional career included work at several Mississippi Gulfcoast defense firms, where he focused primarily on real estate, corporate law and litigation, corporate risk assessment, complex transactional drafting/management, healthcare compliance and litigation, estate planning, probate, family law, and general litigation. During his professional career, he also served as general counsel to multiple healthcare corporations, overseeing the legal aspects of a critical access hospital, skilled nursing facilities, a comprehensive outpatient rehabilitative facility, and a durable medical equipment company. He also has represented the public sector, having served several public entities in contract formation, negotiation, interpretation, and adoption; competitive bidding; statutory interpretation; construction lending; litigation; and eminent domain. Mr. Blackledge has a strong background in financial matters, having graduated magna cum laude with general and senior honors in accounting from the University of Southern Mississippi. He earned his certified public accountant (CPA) designation while in law school and has served as an adjunct professor of accounting at William Carey University.

Mr. MacMenamin has experienced many different facets of the industry and appreciates the historical significance of the survey profession and the challenges it faces as technological advancements shape its future. He has performed various types of surveys ranging across multiple states and specialties, including the removal and rebuilding of the Volcanoes at the Mirage in Las Vegas and the demolition of the Galleria Mall in New Orleans and its subsequent replacement, Championship Square. Additionally, he has worked on industrial, commercial, and residential projects throughout the state of Louisiana as well as projects in Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, and Nevada. With 20+ years of experience and a passion for surveying, Mr. MacMenamin provides the highest level of client satisfaction on every project.

Over the years, Mr. McNally has mostly focused on probate and estate/trusts litigation, HOA and covenant enforcement, criminal defense, consumer bankruptcy, real estate and evictions and foreclosures, however, he does often pursue other types of matters on behalf of his clients. While maintaining his own practice, he has also served in many roles to many coast law firms and served as in-house counsel for the Diamondhead Property Owners Association. He has also served as an assistant prosecutor and pro tempore public defender. Mr. McNally’s journey began at St. Stanislaus College, followed by his graduation from Long Beach High School. He earned a full athletic scholarship to Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama, where he played on the basketball team and obtained his bachelor’s degree. Owen went on to earn his Juris Doctorate from the University of Mississippi School of Law (Ole Miss Law) in Oxford, Mississippi, laying the foundation for his legal career. He briefly played basketball professionally in Europe. Mr. McNally is a trusted advocate for his clients and is licensed to practice in all Mississippi state courts and the federal district court for the Southern District of Mississippi. He is a member of The Mississippi Bar and the Harrison County Bar Association, staying connected to the legal profession and its developments. Residing in Harrison County with his wife and four children, he values family and community.

Prior to his service at TVA, Mr. Savage was in private survey practice for 10 years specializing in dispute resolution and expert witness services. He has surveyed several disputed state boundaries to resolve jurisdictional conflicts. Mr. Savage is an adjunct professor at Cleveland State Community College where he teaches courses in boundary law, geodesy, GIS, and surveying fundamentals. He has researched and retraced the historical surveys of Henry David Thoreau and has published several articles on the subject. Mr. Savage teaches exam review and continuing education seminars at various state and local conferences across the country.

Mr. Yentzen has worked for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as a legislative affairs specialist in our nation’s capitol. Mr. Yentzen spent the prior year serving the Honorable Senator from Mississippi, Trent Lott, as a Legislative Fellow specializing in technology and space issues. He knows the adage that “it doesn’t take a rocket scientist” personally as he was an engineer for NASA for almost 12 years prior to his graduation from the Loyola University Law School in 2002. During his NASA career, he was acknowledged as an expert on the compatibility of materials with oxygen-enriched environments and was an instructor for an internationally recognized American Society of Testing and Material (ASTM) course on the subject. Mr. Yentzen began attending law school in the evening program at Loyola in 1998 while working a full-time job as an engineer for NASA at the John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi. He received numerous academic awards and was a member of the Law Review at Loyola. He was designated a William S. Crowe Scholar upon graduation and was ranked first in his evening school class. Mr. Yentzen has experience in civil litigation, trusts and estates, corporate transactional work, bankruptcy, commercial and residential real estate closings and condominium formation work. In fact he was one of the first attorneys on the Mississippi Coast to file a property report on a condominium project with the Department of Housing and Urban Development under the Interstate Land Sales Full Disclosure Act (ILSFDA). He formed Esplanade Land and Title Company, LLC, which he named after his street address when he lived in New Orleans during law school, to focus on commercial and residential real estate projects, including preparation of contracts, assistance with local, state and federal compliance and closing purchase and sale agreements. He has taught a continuing legal education (CLE) course on easements to an audience of attorneys and other professionals, and has taught several continuing education course to realtors and agents on contracts and other real estate matters. Mr. Yentzen is licensed to practice law in Mississippi, Louisiana and Washington DC.