Christie B. Tillapaugh

Christie B. Tillapaugh is President and CEO of Dentons Cohen & Grigsby, where she is a Shareholder and serves as Chair of the firm's Nonprofit and Tax-Exempt Organizations Group. Her practice focuses on Corporate Governance, serving as outside general counsel and providing strategic transaction-related counseling for numerous organizations, including tax-exempt and for-profit companies.

She is recognized as a leading corporate lawyer in the region's nonprofit sector, having worked on many transformative projects and transactions. Christie regularly provides guidance to senior management and boards of directors on a variety of corporate, transactional and corporate governance-related issues, and has counseled public, private and nonprofit clients in mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, reorganizations and strategic collaborations and partnerships.

She brings significant firm management experience, having served on various management committees, including the Compensation Committee and Oversight and Executive Committee. She previously spearheaded the firm's Associates Committee and chaired both the Talent Management and Recruiting and Hiring Committees.

Prior to joining Dentons Cohen & Grigsby, Christie served as in-house counsel at Tollgrade Communications, Inc., a telecommunications company then listed with NASDAQ, and began her legal career as an associate in the corporate and securities group at Reed Smith in Pittsburgh. She holds a JD from Penn State University Dickinson School of Law and a BA in International Politics from Penn State University. She was selected to the 2026 edition of The Best Lawyers in America for Corporate Law and named its 2026 "Lawyer of the Year."