Admitted
1976, West Virginia; 1985, Kentucky, U.S. District Court, Districts of Kentucky and West Virginia, U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd, 4th and 6th Circuits and U.S. Supreme Court
Law School
Washington and Lee University, J.D., 1975
Law School Graduation Year
1975
College
Washington and Lee University, B.S., 1972
Memberships
Kanawha County, Kentucky and West Virginia Bar Associations; West Virginia Defense Trial Counsel (Immediate Past- President, 2002); Rotary International.
Biographical
Phi Beta Kappa (Past-President, Charleston Chapter); Beta Gamma Sigma; Order of the Coif; Omicron Delta Kappa. Burks Teaching Scholar, Washington and Lee University, 1974-1975. Editor, Fourth Circuit Review, Rotary International. Listed in: Who's Who in Executive-Professionals, 2004 Edition; Chambers U.S., America's Leading Business Lawyers, 2003-2004 Edition. Author: The Case for Restricting Offsets, Best's Review Property/Casualty Insurance Edition, Volume 91 No. 3, July 1990; Sweetheart Arrangements Between Lenders and Their Title Lawyers - Are They Really? 37 Washington & Lee Law Review 343, 1980; The Sixth Amendment and the Right to a Trial by Jury of the Vicinage, 31 Washington & Lee Law Review 399, 1974. Law Clerk, The Hon. H. Emory Widener, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, 1975-1976.