NHSTalks Stories || Episode 16: The Grillos Family
December 30, 2020
John Grillos
John M. Grillos is a director, mentor and CEO with decades of experience helping companies and management teams reach their full potential. His experience encompasses a wide variety of product and service companies. He has been a highly influential director of 25 for-profit and non-profit organizations. As the CEO he has successfully turned around six companies ranging in size from $3M in sales to over $250M in sales. He is an angel investor, leveraging his considerable experience as a professional venture capital investor.
Judge Aleta A. Grillos Trauger
Judge Aleta A. Trauger was recently selected as the 2020 recipient of the Sixth Circuit American Inns of Court Professional Award. This award recognizes Judge Trauger’s distinguished public service career, exemplified by the values of professionalism, ethics, and civility.
Judge Trauger’s career is characterized by being the first, or one of the first women, to hold each position she has held. She was the first woman to serve as Criminal Chief and First Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Middle District of Tennessee, the first female chief of staff to the Mayor of Nashville, the first woman selected to be a Middle District of Tennessee Bankruptcy Judge, and the first woman to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. Judge Trauger was a founder of the Nashville Lawyers’ Association for Women, a founding member of the Tennessee Lawyer’s Association for Women, and has been a long-time member of the National Association of Women Judges. She is now the first woman to be selected by the Sixth Circuit for this important award.
Judge Trauger’s career is characterized by being the first, or one of the first women, to hold each position she has held. She was the first woman to serve as Criminal Chief and First Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Middle District of Tennessee, the first female chief of staff to the Mayor of Nashville, the first woman selected to be a Middle District of Tennessee Bankruptcy Judge, and the first woman to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. Judge Trauger was a founder of the Nashville Lawyers’ Association for Women, a founding member of the Tennessee Lawyer’s Association for Women, and has been a long-time member of the National Association of Women Judges. She is now the first woman to be selected by the Sixth Circuit for this important award.
