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John Dodd, CFP®

Senior Financial Advisor, Principal

John Dodd is a Principal and Senior Financial Advisor for Ronald Blue & Co.'s branch office in Nashville, Tennessee.

As a Senior Financial Advisor, John acts as his clients' Chief Financial Officer, helping them make wise financial decisions. As a result, John's clients avoid costly financial mistakes while making tangible progress in achieving their specific financial goals.

John earned his BS in Accounting from the University of Mississippi and his Masters of Taxation at Georgia State University. He is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ certificant, a Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor, an Accredited Asset Management Specialist, an Accredited Wealth Management Advisor, and a Chartered Mutual Fund Consultant. 

Prior to joining the firm, John worked for Arthur Andersen & Co. as a Tax Accountant serving individuals, corporations and partnerships. John also worked in the banking industry in mergers and acquisitions, financial analysis and lending.

John is a popular financial teacher and seminar speaker, earning an "excellent" rating by the American Institute of Banking, as well as being a featured speaker at the Federal Reserve. He has appeared in Fortune magazine, Sound Mind Investing newsletter and authored a book entitled Rx for a Medical Marriage: A Guide to Harmony (based, in part, on his marriage to a doctor and having been reared in a medical family). John has spoken on Christian Radio and has been a featured speaker for Focus on the Family and the Christian Medical and Dental Society conferences.

His past and present community involvement includes adjunct professor of accounting at Dekalb College, past President of InfoAdvantage Toastmasters, and Chairman of the Board of the Friends of the Susan Gray School at Vanderbilt University. John serves on the Board of the Brentwood YMCA, Leadership Brentwood, and Cool Springs Rotary.

John and his wife, Kathleen, have two daughters and live in Brentwood, Tennessee.

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