Admitted
1982, Alabama; U.S. District Court, Southern, Middle and Northern Districts of Alabama, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit, U.S. Supreme Court
Law School
University of Alabama, J.D., 1982
Law School Graduation Year
1982
College
Samford University, B.A., magna cum laude, 1979
Memberships
Mobile (Member, Federal Civil Practice Law Section) and American (Member, Section of: Sections on Employment; Litigation; Urban, State and Local Government Law, Public Sectors Lawyers Division; Torts and Insurance; Dispute Resolution) Bar Associations; Alabama State Bar (Member, Employment Law Section); Alabama Mediator Roster (Member, Alabama Center for Dispute Resolution); American Arbitration Association (Member, Panel of Employment Law Arbitrators, Panel of Employment Law Mediators); Defense Research Institute; Alabama Defense Lawyers Association; Alabama Association of Municipal Attorneys; Atlanta Claims Association.
Biographical
Member, 1980-1982 and Member, Managing Board (Student Work Editor, 1981-1982), Alabama Law Review . Recipient: American Jurisprudence Award; Law School Foundation Scholarship, Hugo L. Black Scholar. Student Instructor, Legal Research and Writing, University of Alabama School of Law Spring 1982. Law Clerk to the Hon. William C. O'Kelley, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia, 1982-1984. Author: Defending Sewer Backup Claims, 52 Alabama Municipal Journal 24, 1994; Court Sanctions Prosecutorial Appeals of Sentences: United States v. DiFrancesco 33 Ala. L. Rev. 545, 1982. Speaker: Current Issues in Employment Law, Regional Conference of National Emergency Number Association, 1999; Alabama Labor and Employment Law, National Business Institute, Inc., 1998; Preventing and Defending Sexual Harassment Claims in Alabama, National Business Institute, Inc., 1996; The Interrelationship Between the Americans with Disabilities Act and Alabama's Worker's Compensation Laws, Annual Convention of the Alabama League of Municipalities, 1995.