Stites & Harbison Welcomes Five Attorneys to Kentucky and Tennessee

LOUISVILLE, Ky.—Stites & Harbison, PLLC announces the addition of five attorneys to the firm. Two attorneys join the Louisville, Ky., office: Collin M. Aycock and Jordan Butler. The Lexington, Ky., office gains Jacob Baird while Mason Scioneaux and Mary Kate Tumelty join the Nashville, Tenn., office.

Collin M. Aycock is a member of the Intellectual Property & Technology Service Group. He earned his J.D. from the University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, summa cum laude, in 2025. In law school, Aycock was a research assistant for Professor Lars Smith and president of the Technology Law Society. He served as the senior articles editor for the University of Louisville Law Review, Volume 63, and published a Note entitled “A World Post-Warhol: What Is Fair use in Computer Code?” Prior to joining Stites & Harbison, he was a summer associate for the firm in 2023 and 2024. He also was a legal extern for the University of Louisville Office of Research and Innovation, 2024-25, and a law clerk for Caldwell Tanks, Inc., spring of 2024. He is admitted to practice in Kentucky.

Jordan Butler is a member of the Torts & Insurance Practice Service Group. She earned her J.D. from the University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law, magna cum laude, in 2025. While in law school, she was vice president of the Black Law Students Association and a peer mentor for the First-Generation Peer Mentor Connection. Prior to joining Stites & Harbison, Butler was a student attorney for the University of Louisville Law Eviction Defense Clinic, spring of 2025, and a student mediator for the University of Louisville Law Mediation Clinic, 2024-25. She also was a legal intern for Beam Suntory, Inc., in 2023 and a summer associate for Stites & Harbison in 2023 and 2024. She is admitted to practice in Kentucky.

Jacob Baird is a member of the Torts & Insurance Practice Service Group. He earned his J.D., summa cum laude and Order of the Coif, from the University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law in 2024. In law school, he was a senior editor of the Kentucky Law Journal, Volume 112, and published a Note entitled “The End of an Aberration: Overturning Major League Baseball’s Century Old Antitrust Exemption.” He also was a member of the Moot Court National Team, fall of 2023. Prior to joining Stites & Harbison, Baird was a judicial law clerk for Judge Karen K. Caldwell, 2024-25, and participated in the firm’s summer associate program in 2023. He is admitted to practice in Kentucky.

Mason Scioneaux is a member of the Business Litigation Service Group. He earned his J.D. from the University of Mississippi School of Law, summa cum laude, in 2024. In law school, he was president of the Federalist Society, vice president of St. Thomas More Legal Society and elections commissioner of the Student Bar Association. He also served on the Executive Board of the Mississippi Law Journal, Volume 93. Prior to joining Stites & Harbison, Scioneaux served as a legal extern for Judge Jude G. Gravois of the Louisiana Fifth Circuit Court of Appeal and as a judicial law clerk for Judge Taylor B. McNeel of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi. He also participated in the firm’s summer associate program during 2022 and 2023. He is admitted to practice in Tennessee and Mississippi.

Mary Kate Tumelty is a member of the Business & Finance Service Group. She earned her J.D. from Belmont University College of Law, in 2025. In law school, she competed on the Transactional Team of the Board of Advocates, spring of 2024 and 2025. She also was a member of the American Inns of Court, participated in the Peer Mentor Program and served as vice president and secretary of the Christian Legal Society. Prior to joining Stites & Harbison, she participated in the firm’s summer associate program during 2024, served as a legal intern for the Metropolitan Government of Nashville’s Department of Law, summer of 2023, and was a judicial intern for Judge Ana Escobar, Davidson County General Sessions Court, Division III, summer of 2023. She is admitted to practice in Tennessee.