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NOLHGA’s 41st
Annual Meeting
October 7-9, 2024
Nashville, Tennessee
Join us for NOLHGA’s 41st Annual Meeting in Nashville at the JW Marriott.
Featured Presenters
Senior Managing Director, Partner & Macro Strategist: Wellington Management
Juhi Dhawan, PhD
Senior Managing Director, Partner & Macro Strategist: Wellington Management
As a member of the firm’s Global Macro Strategy Group, Juhi Dhawan leads Wellington Management’s analysis of the U.S. economy. Her work on growth, inflation, interest rates, and economic policy is a core input to portfolio managers and analysts across the firm. She is an active participant in investment strategy groups and works closely with investors to translate her work into investment ideas and themes. Additionally, she is a member of the firm’s Audit Committee.
Prior to joining Wellington Management in 1995, Dhawan held positions at the International Monetary Fund (1991–1992) and the World Bank (1992). She received her PhD (1995) and AM (1991) in economics at Brown University. She also holds a BA from the University of Delhi (1989).
Chief Legal Officer: UnitedHealthcare
Thad Johnson
Chief Legal Officer: UnitedHealthcare
Thad Johnson is Chief Legal Officer of UnitedHealthcare. In this role, he has overall responsibility for UnitedHealthcare’s legal, regulatory affairs, and compliance functions, as well as UnitedHealthcare’s internal and external communications. Previously, he also led the external affairs function for UnitedHealth Group. Prior to this, he was General Counsel of UnitedHealthcare’s Employer & Individual business, with oversight of legal, compliance, regulatory affairs, and health care reform implementation.
Johnson joined UnitedHealth Group in 2000 as an Associate General Counsel and Assistant Secretary, supporting corporate development, treasury, and finance. He has held various legal leadership roles, including network, pharmacy, clinical services, transactions, vendor and strategic partnership contracting, and corporate governance and licensing.
Prior to joining UnitedHealth Group, Johnson was with Dorsey & Whitney, where he advised private and public companies on securities law, mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity offerings, private equity placements, corporate governance concerns, and other general business matters.
Johnson received a Bachelor’s Degree in electrical engineering, summa cum laude, from the University of Minnesota and earned a Juris Doctorate, cum laude, from Harvard Law School. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the United Health Foundation.
Commissioner: Tennessee Department Commerce & Insurance
Carter Lawrence
Commissioner: Tennessee Department Commerce & Insurance
Carter Lawrence serves as the Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance and the State Fire Marshal. Before his appointment to Governor Lee’s cabinet, Lawrence served in a variety of roles in the department, including Chief Deputy Commissioner, Chief Operating Officer, and Assistant Commissioner. He has spearheaded initiatives to lower fees on licensed professionals and increase customer service through better tools for customers, and he has advocated for the removal of overly burdensome regulations.
As Tennessee’s Commissioner of Commerce and Insurance and State Fire Marshal, Lawrence is responsible for the divisions of insurance, fire prevention, and regulatory boards—including 26 regulatory entities, TennCare Oversight, Tennessee Law Enforcement Training Academy, Tennessee Police Officer Standards and Training Commission, and the administratively attached Tennessee Emergency Communications Board.
On behalf of the Governor’s administration, Commissioner Lawrence has served on several initiatives, including the Tennessee Economic Recovery Group, Law Enforcement Training Advisory Council, and the historic economic development announcement of Ford Motor Company’s Blue Oval City.
Commissioner Lawrence is an attorney who studied law at the University of Tennessee, where he also obtained a Master of Business Administration. For undergraduate studies, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts from Wheaton College in Illinois. He is a Nashville-area native. He and his wife, Amy, are the proud parents of three children and attend Nashville’s Church of the Redeemer.
Commissioner Lawrence remains focused on leading Commerce and Insurance to protect Tennesseans through balanced oversight of insurance and regulated professions while enhancing consumer advocacy, education, and public safety.