Lorrie Brouse currently serves as the Executive Secretary for the Tennessee Insurance Guaranty Association (TIGA).  As a member of the guaranty fund community, Lorrie has been involved in a number of NCIGF projects.  She is the designated member advisor on the External Relations Committee, is a member of the DEI subcommittee, has been part of a governance task force project, serves on a variety of IOC subcommittee, and in 2024 stepped into the chair position of the NCIGF’s legal committee.  Lorrie serves on a number of coordinating committees for various insolvencies.  Lorrie is just finishing serving as Immediate Past Chair and a member of the Executive Counsel for the CMFTS group, a consortium of states which currently share a common claims management and financial tracking software program. She remains interested and actively participates in NCIGF/NAIC related activities.  Lorrie is serving as a member on the IAIR Board, where she is also co-chairing IAIR’s Education Committee.

Prior to her current role at TIGA, Lorrie had come from Tennessee’s Department of Commerce of Insurance, composed of more than 900 state employees throughout the state.  As Deputy Commissioner, Lorrie oversaw the Insurance, Securities, TennCare Oversight and Fire Prevention divisions.  During her tenure at the Department, she also served as General Counsel, where she led a group of approximately 50 attorneys, legal professionals and support staff in providing a vast array of legal services for the varied divisions under the Agency’s umbrella, including the aforementioned divisions as well as regulatory boards (ranging from cosmetology and barber to funeral homes, real estate and accountancy), the Law Enforcement Training Academy (TLETA), Peace Officer Standards Training Commission (POST), Corrections, and Consumer Affairs.  As an insurance regulator, Lorrie was actively involved in a number of NAIC committees and task forces.

Prior to Lorrie’s stint as a regulator, she was with Allstate Insurance for many years.  As Regional Counsel, Lorrie was a leading member of the Southern Region’s executive management team, as well as an active member of the company’s legal division.  She coordinated legislative and regulatory matters for Mississippi, Louisiana, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Tennessee and served in leadership positions on a variety of industry boards in those five states.  During her time with Allstate, Lorrie was Chair of the Mississippi Windstorm Underwriting Association (MWUA) when Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast, and her efforts in both Louisiana and Mississippi with varied and diverse parties led to a number of sweeping legislative and regulatory reforms in the aftermath of dealing with such a catastrophe.  She also chaired the Kentucky FAIR Plan, chaired the Insurance Institute of Kentucky, was secretary-treasurer of TIGA and chaired its Audit Committee, headed the reinsurance committees for both the MWUA and the Mississippi Residential Property Insurance Underwriting Association (MRPIUA), was a member of the Louisiana Property and Casualty Commission, the Arkansas Rural Risk Underwriting Association (ARRUA), the Arkansas Earthquake Authority, the Arkansas Emergency Response Task Force, and was a founding member of the Coalition to Insure Louisiana and other related coalitions.  She also served on the auto insurance plans for Mississippi and Tennessee.  While with Allstate, Lorrie also gained experience in claims, sales, human resources, internal security and was designated as a Certified Fraud Examiner.  In those roles, she worked in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and California, and had responsibilities for regions in the northeastern United States from Virginia to Maine and Ohio, as well as all states west from Colorado, including Alaska and Hawaii.

Adopted as a baby from South Korea, Lorrie was raised by American parents primarily in Michigan and West Virginia.  Lorrie received both her undergraduate and J.D. from West Virginia University and holds active licenses in both Tennessee and West Virginia.  She has held a variety of leadership roles with her local churches in both California and Tennessee and previously was a board member and part of the executive council with the YWCA of Nashville and Middle Tennessee.  She currently serves as a board member for the Nashville Repertory Theatre.