Board of Directors

Sarah Sparboe Thornburg

Lawyers Mutual welcomed Sarah Sparboe Thornburg to the board in 2014. She practices estate planning and estate and trust administration with McGuire, Wood & Bissette, P.A., in Asheville.  A graduate of Duke University and Wake Forest University School of Law, Sarah was previously a public high school teacher and served as a judicial clerk for the Honorable Thomas A. Higgins with the United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee. Sarah is the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina and is the Moderator of the Presbytery of Western North Carolina. She also serves on the Boards of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Association of Asheville and Buncombe County, and of Working Wheels WNC. Sarah volunteers regularly with Pisgah Legal Services' "Mountain Area Volunteer Lawyer" program, and is an active volunteer in the Asheville City School system.