Julie Lilliston is Founder & President, Julie Lilliston Communications, an award-winning nationally certified woman-owned public relations firm in Nashville that helps businesses enhance their reputation, build their brand and grow market share. She cultivated her corporate communications expertise at Weber Shandwick in Chicago. Her work on the GoDirect campaign for the U.S. Treasury and Federal Reserve Banks earned a PRSA Silver Anvil and PRWeek Award.

Julie Lilliston Communications ranks as a “Top 15 Public Relations Agencies in Nashville” by Up City. She is a member of PRSA’s Counselors Academy and served on the board of the National Association of Women Business Owners, Nashville Chapter as Past President. Julie is a recipient of the Nashville Business Journal’s Women of Influence Awards and an ATHENA Award nominee. She serves on the Women’s Enterprise Forum as 2nd Vice Chair of the Marketing Team with WBENC. Julie is an alumni of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program. She serves on the board of directors of Citizens Savings Bank and Trust Company, the nation’s oldest continuously operating African American owned bank. She received the Enterprising Women of the Year Champions Award in 2022.

Julie has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from The College of Wooster in Ohio.