W. Kirby Davis, Jr.

Before joining Freeman Webb in 2014, W. Kirby Davis, Jr. served as Executive Vice President and ultimately President of First Management Services based in Nashville, TN managing approximately 5,000 multifamily units in Tennessee, as well as over 700,000 s.f of shopping centers.

Prior to his tenure in property management, Kirby received his law degree from The University of Tennessee at Knoxville, where he graduated Order of the Coif. He then served as a law clerk to the Honorable L. Clure Morton, United States District Judge from 1983 to 1985. After completing his clerkship, Kirby worked in New York as an attorney in the offices of William S. Friedman, who at that time, was Vice Chairman of Southmark Corporation - a $9 billion real estate syndication firm. Kirby is licensed to practice law in Tennessee and several of the federal circuits.

Kirby returned to Nashville in 1986 to work for Mid-South Financial, a Nashville-based mortgage brokerage firm, originating mortgage loans and brokering investment real estate. In his three years at Mid-South Financial, he financed and sold over $100 million of real estate.

Davis also lends his expertise to a variety of charitable, civic, and professional organizations. He is a past President of the Greater Nashville Apartment Association (GNAA) and the Tennessee Apartment Association and continues to serve on the board of the GNAA. He served in 2007 as chairman of the Nashville Downtown Partnership and currently serves on the board of that organization. In 2008, he was named Volunteer of the Year by the Nashville Downtown Partnership and received that award again in 2013 as part of the How’s Nashville team that is focused on ending chronic homelessness.

He served on the board of the Baptist Healing Trust from 2005-2011. Kirby is also an advisory board member of the Faith Family Medical Clinic.