As of October 17, 2026. Times are Eastern.
The State Bar of Georgia told me to email grievances to Adrienne D. Nash. On June 17, 2026 I did. She never answered. The respondent did. After May 22, the only email from her mailbox was an out of office message, one minute after I copied her.
The silent treatment, with an auto reply.
On June 17, 2026, at 7:19 PM, I did exactly what the State Bar of Georgia told me. I emailed a grievance to Adrienne D. Nash. She was on the To line. The Bar’s own mail server confirmed delivery to her mailbox at 7:21 PM.
The answer came the next morning. Not from Nash. From the lawyer the grievance was about. Shiptenko wrote one word: “Received.”
From Nash: nothing. Not that day, not that month. Her last email to me is dated May 22, 2026. That is 148 days of silence as of October 17, 2026.
She was the one person the Bar told me to write to. On May 7, 2026, John J. Shiptenko wrote: “Ms. Nash usually handles ADA requests for the grievance process, and I assist her as needed.” On June 16, Shiptenko told me how to file a grievance without a CAPTCHA or a phone call: “email it to Ms. Nash”.
Her mailbox did answer once. On June 1, 2026, at 7:07 PM, I copied Nash on my second request for a receipt for a grievance I had filed on May 29. At 7:08 PM, one minute later, it replied: “I will be out of the office June 1-5, 2026. I will be checking my email periodically. If you need immediate assistance please contact Cathe Payne at cathep@gabar.org or (404)527-8786.”
Checking periodically. No reply came that week, or after.
It was not one email. After May 22, the Bar’s mail server confirmed delivery to Nash of at least six of my emails, as of October 17, 2026. One was addressed to her: the June 17 grievance, at 7:19 PM (it opened “Mr. Shiptenko,” because it was a grievance about him, sent to her as the Bar directed). Five copied her: June 1 (7:07 PM), June 2 (11:15 AM), June 2 (2:03 PM), June 17 (3:48 PM) and June 26 (8:39 AM). She answered none of them.
The only thing she sent me after May 22 was not an email. It was a pair of decision letters on June 30, from an address that says no one reads it.
What I Allege:
- The designated inbox. I allege that on May 7, 2026 the Bar wrote, “Ms. Nash usually handles ADA requests for the grievance process,” and that on June 16, 2026 it told me to “email it to Ms. Nash”.
- Out, one minute later. I allege that at 7:07 PM on June 1, 2026 I copied Adrienne D. Nash on a request for a grievance receipt, and that at 7:08 PM her mailbox replied, “I will be out of the office June 1-5, 2026. I will be checking my email periodically.”
- Her inbox, his answer. I allege that on June 17, 2026 I emailed a grievance to Nash, as the Bar had told me to, that delivery to her mailbox was confirmed, and that the only reply came from the lawyer the grievance was about: “Received.”
- The silent treatment. I allege that Nash has sent me no email from her own address since May 22, 2026, 148 days as of October 17, 2026.
- Silence, six times. I allege that after May 22, 2026, at least six of my emails were delivered to Nash, one addressed to her and five copying her, and that she answered none of them, as of October 17, 2026.
- It appears to me that the Bar named a person for disabled complainants to write to, and that the person stopped writing back.
What It Did to Me:
I need things in writing. That is my accommodation. When the person the Bar names for me stops writing, the accommodation is just a name on a page.
Is this how they would treat their own family or friends that were disabled?
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