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Celeste P. Middleton - State Farm Insurance
The First and Best Choice for Your Home and Business
As a small business owner herself, State Farm agent Celeste Middleton understands the unique insurance and financial needs that come with owning a small business. Celeste and her team offer tailored plans to not only protect business property and buildings, but also to help to carve out a roadmap for a successful financial future.

“Our mission is to take care of our policyholders. We want our success to be based on a foundation of relationships, mutual trust, integrity, and financial strength,” she says. Celeste specializes in personal lines of insurance such as auto, home, life, and medical. For businesses, Celeste offers products such as business owners and business auto policies, workers compensation, group life, and bonds. “We want to look down the road and try to cover the unexpected,” she says. “We work hard to do a great job on the front end, so that when a crisis occurs – you’re protected.”

Celeste is excited to offer customers a wide variety of financial products including retirement planning, Roth, SEP, Annuities, and IRAs as well as insurance and financial reviews to help policyholders review policies to eliminate any gaps in coverage. She says, “Many people don’t realize the financial strength that State Farm represents.” State Farm has a federal bank offering traditional banking products as well as auto, home, and business loans. “A small business can come to State Farm for anything they need,” says Celeste. “Whether you need insurance, a small business loan, or investment products – we have what you are looking for.”

Small business owners can rest assured that State Farm has the tools to “plan for and protect your entire business,” says Celeste. Their comprehensive line of business products include business property & liability products, business life insurance/group life insurance options, business auto insurance, surety & fidelity bonds, mobile property & inland marine, workers compensation, specialty business liability and financial products such as mutual funds, retirement plans, business health insurance, business deposit accounts, and State Farm Bank Visa business credit card.

Whether a business owner, self-employed contractor, run a home office, landlord, farmer/rancher, or even non-profit organization or church, State Farm offers policies tailored to suit your needs.

The team at Celeste’s State Farm agency is friendly, professional, and knowledgeable. “I am extremely proud of our team!” she says. Her team includes Stephanie Brumit a 20 year insurance veteran who has worked alongside Celeste for 8 years, Kellye Smith who has been with State Farm for 10 years, and Kim Powers who has more than 10 years of experience in customer service and sales. “Relationships are what set us apart from other agencies,” says Celeste. Whether customers need help finding the right insurance product or need someone to walk with them through the claims process, Celeste and her team are truly dedicated to giving their policyholders peace of mind, the ability to recover from loss, and the tools to move forward.

Celeste and her team are proud to stand behind a company whose reputation exudes integrity and strength. She says, “I am really proud of what State Farm stands for and to be able to offer great products that really do protects families and businesses alike.” Backed by their proven history of excellence in customer service and financial stability, State Farm has continued to build upon its founding principle of doing the right thing for its customers since 1922.

Their founding principles of fairly priced insurance coverage with fair claim settlement have led to State Farm being named for Best Claims by JD Power & Associates. Celeste says, “State Farm’s vision has always been to think ahead and to be prepared.” Seeking to be first choice in insurance and the banking industry, Celeste and her team along with State Farm will actively listen to customers’ needs while always continuing to operate by the values the company was founded on - quality service and relationships, mutual trust, integrity and financial strength.

While State Farm insures more cars than any other insurer in North America, they continue to also excel in insuring homes and businesses while providing as wide of an array of banking services offered anywhere else. As their slogan says, “We are people who make it our business to be like a good neighbor.” Celeste and the whole team strive to live out State Farm’s mission of helping their customers manage risks, recover from the unexpected, and realize dreams.

Celeste and her team are Chairman’s Circle Winners, recipients of the Bronze Tablet Award, and have been honored as Life Ambassador Travelers. For more information call 615-895-2700, email celeste.middleton.gmlr@statefarm.com or visit www.celestemiddleton.com. Her office is located at 803 N. Thompson Lane, Suite B102 in Murfreesboro; office hours M-F 9am-5pm and by appointment.