About Megan Barry | Nashville Metro Council at Large

About Megan

Megan has been in Nashville since 1991, when she moved here to attend Vanderbilt University. She received her MBA from Vanderbilt’s Owen School in 1993, and after graduation decided to make Nashville her home. Born in California, while her father was stationed at El Toro Marine Corps base, Megan grew up in Overland Park, Kansas. She graduated from Notre Dame de Sion, a Catholic girls high school in Kansas City, and she received her Bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Baker University, a Methodist college in Baldwin City, Kansas.

Megan has been actively involved in civic and community activities that range from schools and neighborhoods to arts and politics. She currently serves as a Metro Council member At-large. She serves on the boards of the Center for Non-profit Management, the Belcourt Theatre and the Tennessee Rep. She is also an advisory member for TIRRC. She is a past participant of Leadership Nashville and she has co-chaired the Center for Nonprofit Management's "Salute to Excellence" event, honoring the hard work of all who serve our community.

As part of her council responsibilities, she is the Chair of the Budget and Finance committee and serves on the Codes, Fair and Farmer’s Market committee; Public Safety, Beer and Regulated Beverages committee; and the Transportation and Aviation committee. Megan is the past Chair of the Education committee.

Professionally, Megan has extensive experience developing and managing ethics programs in corporate settings. She is currently the ethics and compliance officer for Premier, Inc., a health-care group purchasing organization and the proud recipient of the 2006 Malcolm Baldrige Award for Quality. Before joining Premier in 2003, she was an independent consultant to multinational firms on issues dealing with business ethics and corporate social responsibility. She also spent several years as a specialist in business ethics and corporate responsibility at Nortel Networks. She has been an adjunct faculty member at Belmont University and Vanderbilt University, teaching courses in business ethics, leadership, and human resources.

She is married to Bruce Barry, a professor of organization studies at Vanderbilt. Their son, Max, is a sophomore in high school and they share their home with two rescue dogs, Hank and Boris.

The Barry family at Thanksgiving, 2010.

Bruce and Megan Barry with their son Max.

Megan Barry and her mother.

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