Timeline

Early 1963	Chester L. Warren (founder) opened Chester L. Warren PA at 100 Main Street in Madisonville, Tennessee.
Mid-1960s	Chester’s wife, Mary Sue Warren, joined the accounting office after obtaining her public accounting license.
Early-1970s	Chester and David P. Bales opened an office on Monroe Street in Sweetwater, Tennessee. Chester and Mary Sue continued to operate the accounting office in Madisonville while David managed the Sweetwater office.
1977	Douglas E. Warren joined the firm full time as a Madisonville staff accountant.
1981	Chester Warren passed away after a lengthy illness.
1984	Douglas Warren moved to Sweetwater and continued the firm as Warren & Bales PC, after David Bales took a position with a client. Meanwhile, Mary Sue Warren assumed operation of the Madisonville office under the name M. Sue Warren CPA. Later, the Sweetwater office merged with G. R. Rush and Company.
1988	Michael Tallent and Douglas Warren re-established the Sweetwater office from G. R. Rush, and renamed the firm Warren & Tallent CPAs.
1995	The Sweetwater and Madisonville firms were merged and operated under the name of Warren & Tallent CPA’s.
2002	Robert S. Tallent was admitted as a member, and the firm continues today as Warren & Tallent CPAs, PLLC.
2004	David P. Bales, CPA returned to Warren & Tallent CPA’s PLLC in the Sweetwater office.
2007	Mary Sue Warren passed of COPD respiratory disease. She will be sadly missed but remembered as one of the establishers of the Warren & Tallent CPAs legacy
2010	Michael K. Tallent, CPA passed away after a long and difficult battle with cancer. His memory lives on in all our hearts and will be a legacy for years to come.