Public Guardian Permanently Suspended Over Billing Practices

Nashville Probate Judge Randy Kennedy has permanentlysuspended Jeanan Mills Stuart, the public guardian of Davidson County, forcharging excessive fees to elderly and disabled people in her care.

Stuart’s job as public guardian was to make legal, medical,and financial decisions for elderly and disabled people with no family orfriends to make these decisions for them. Stuart purportedly “charged those in her care legal rates of $200 to$225 an hour to perform tasks such as shopping or helping them move to anassisted living facility.”

See Nashville Judge Permanently Suspends PublicGuardian, WSMV.com, May 22, 2013.