Maggie Cavender

After graduation from Vanderbuilt University with a law degree, Maggie moved to California where her husband, Pete, she involved herself totally in the aviation industry. At the beginning of World War II, Maggie was transferred to Lockheed’s Dallas operation, where Maggie oversaw the work of some 160 female employees as Lockheed aircrafts liaison officer and was very instrumental relocating Lockheed facilities to Tennessee. Maggie maintained her pilot license all of her life.

In 1964 Maggie Cavender returned to her hometown of Nashville, Tennessee, she has made an ongoing contribution to the growth of the city as a music center
As on of the most respected leaders Nashville music community. She owns and operated Maggie Cavender Enterprises, a company as diverse and effective as the woman herself. Throughout her career, she worked in music publishing, record production, public relations and artist management. She is most known as the Executive Director of the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) which she had nurtured into a worldwide organization with over 5,000 members worldwide. Under Maggie’s guidance the NSAI became an international hub for similar organizations, disseminating information and education through workshops, seminars, and newsletters. Maggie Cavender was instrumental lobbying before US congress for the copyrights reform act and for the benefit of songwriters and music publisher royalty interests. In addition Maggie was an active member of the National Academy Arts ad Sciences, The Country Music Association, The Nashville Entertainment Journalists Association, the Gospel Music Association. Maggie Cavender played a key role in the careers of Charley Pride, Alabama, Willie Nelson, Johnny Paycheck, Ronnie Dove and many other countless artists. And songwriters. Maggie Cavenders first music job was with Pamper Music in copyright administration,. At that time Pamper (for whom Willie Nelson, and Hank Cochran wrote, among others) was the largest publishing company in the southeast.

Maggie also went on to work with the Country Music Association, Jack Music and Shelby Singelton Music, Inc. (Sun Records), before starting her own company in 1970 Maggie’s reputation is that of a progressive thinker and activist, an astute entrepreneur who is known internationally for her honesty, sincerity and knowledge of the music industry

But beneath her credentials and accomplishments in Maggie Cavender’s unadulterated love of music. “It’s been a labor of love, as far as I’m concerned, she says. I don’t think it’s the money you have or the money you make; I think its’ the things you do that make you successful. She had both the vision to see Nashville as a major internationally acclaimed music center and the grit to make the dream a reality.

Today the word Nashville is Magic, and so too is the Name Maggie Cavender.