Admitted
1990, Texas and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas; 1992, Alabama and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama; U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit; U.S. District Court, Middle and Southern Districts of Alabama
Law School
Cumberland School of Law of Samford University, J.D., 1990
Law School Graduation Year
1990
College
Samford University, B.S., 1987
Memberships
Birmingham (Grievance Committee, Chairman, 2001-2003 and Committee for Legal Reform) and American Bar Associations; Alabama State Bar; State Bar of Texas; Alabama Defense Lawyers Association.
Biographical
Member, Cumberland Law Review. Member, ABA National Trial Advocacy Team, 1989-1990. Winner, Herbert W. Peterson Senior Trial Advocacy Competition, 1989. Cordell Hull Teaching Fellow. Judicial Law Clerk to The Honorable Sharon Lovelace Blackburn, United States District Judge, Northern District of Alabama. Author: The Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act Amendments of 1988: A New Ethical Standard in Government Contracting? 20 Cumb. L. Rev. 421 (1990), reprinted in 21-90, Government Contracts Service, F-1 (1990). Co-Author: The Battle Against Substance Abuse in the Workplace: A Survey of Current Regulatory Issues, 11 Miss. C. L. Rev. 201 (1991); Civil Procedure Update: A Survey of Recent Caselaw Interpreting the Rules, The Alabama Lawyer, Vol. 58, No. 2 (March 1997).