Pamela G. Browne, Esq.
Visiting Assistant Professor of Practice for Music Business
Education
- Doctor of Jurisprudence, Vanderbilt Law School
- Bachelor of Arts, Anthropology, Syracuse University
Education
- Doctor of Jurisprudence, Vanderbilt Law School
- Bachelor of Arts, Anthropology, Syracuse University
Biography
Pamela G. Browne is an entertainment and sports attorney who attended Syracuse University as an undergrad and Vanderbilt University Law School. Her two loves are music and sports. Ms. Browne pioneered as one of the first female agents in the NFL. During her career in the music industry, Browne has been an artist manager and owned a music publishing and production company. After graduating from law school, she worked at a Nashville bank in their legal department and assisted with opening their branches dedicated to music and entertainment clients. One of the bank’s clients, a well-known entertainment law firm representing major country and CCM artists, offered her a position. While at the law firm, Browne’s responsibilities included intellectual property issues (copyrights and trademarks) and contract negotiations for multiplatinum artists, independent labels and music publishing companies.
After leaving the firm, Browne started her own entertainment company and entered a co-publishing and co-production deal with Mike Curb and Curb Records. Browne’s first artist management client was the group Tag Team. She managed them during the release of their multiplatinum hit “Whoomp There It Is.” When Tag Team took a hiatus from touring, Browne returned to Nashville, where she accepted a position as a full-time associate professor in the Mike Curb Music Business Program at Belmont University and eventually was appointed the head of the program. While at Belmont, Browne was recognized for her fundraising activities, including raising significant scholarship funds, recruitment efforts achieving an increase in student enrollment by 75%, and innovative leadership in starting three off-campus music business semester programs in Los Angeles, New York and Melbourne, Australia.
Browne’s next career move was an exciting journey. While visiting Florida, she was contacted by a colleague who had recommended her for the in-house counsel position at Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach. Upon meeting the university’s president, who was looking to hire their first in-house counsel, Browne was offered the position because of her experience as an attorney and with academia. Within a year, the president consolidated several areas and appointed Browne as general counsel and human resources management vice president. While at B-CU, Browne formed the Mike Curb Music Business, Entertainment & Sports Institute, funded by the Mike Curb Family Foundation, to provide internship and networking opportunities for B-CU students interested in those areas. Additionally, at B-CU, Browne was a faculty member in the University’s College of Business & Entrepreneurship, where she was a full professor.
Browne moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where she is a visiting professor in the University of Tennessee Rudi E. Scheidt School of Music with the music business program. She continues to consult with music, entertainment and sports clients concerning their contracts and mentor young professionals pursuing entertainment and sports as a career.