Admitted
1997, Mississippi
Law School
University of Mississippi, J.D., cum laude, 1997
Law School Graduation Year
1997
College
William Carey College, B.S., cum laude, 1994
Memberships
Jones County (Treasurer), Fifth Federal Circuit and American Bar Associations; The Mississippi Bar; Mississippi Claims Association; Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association; Defense Research Institute; Republican Executive Committee.
Biographical
Phi Delta Phi; Pi Gamma Mu; Sigma Tau Delta; Lamar Society of International Law; Federalist Society. All American Scholar. Member: Moot Court Board; National Moot Court Team. Best Oral Advocate, Moot Court Board Oral Advocacy Competition. Member, Journal of National Security Law. Recipient: American Jurisprudence Awards in Constitutional Law, Conflict of Laws, Criminal Procedure and International Law; National Social Science Award. Law Clerk to Hon. Charles W. Pickering, Sr., U.S. District Court, Southern District of Mississippi. Contributing Editor, Shapiro, Howard, Terrorism in a Democratic Society, 1 J. Nat.Sec. L. 95, 1997. Author, Whether Southern University's Race-Based Scholarship Program Exclusively for African-American Students Can Be Sustained as a Remedial Measure Under the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment? 4 Miss. Rev. First Impress. 1, 1997; Discussion of State Court Class Actions In Mississippi, South Central Regional Bar Meeting Instructional Materials, January 2001. Co-Author: Discussion of Fifth Circuit Class Certification Issues and the Possibility of Pursuing Class Certification in State Court, The Mississippi Lawyer, October 2000. Presenter, Discussion of Fifth Circuit Class Certification Issues and the Possibility of Pursuing Class Certification in State Court, Summer School for Lawyers, July 15, 2000.