EDUCATION:  Graduated Shaw High School, 1971; University of South Alabama (B.A., Political Science) 1974; University of Alabama School of Law (J.D.) 1977.

PRACTICE OF LAW:  1977-1980,  Staff Attorney, Legal Aid Society of Mobile; 1980-1986,  Private practice of law; 1986-1989,  Assistant District Attorney assigned to Juvenile Court; 1989-1999,  Juvenile Court Referee;  1999-Present, District Court Judge

 

PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES:

• Member & Past President (2006-2007) – Alabama Association of Juvenile and Family Court Judges, (Officer from 2002-2007);
• Member:  Uniform Child Abduction Prevention Act Committee, Current;
• Member:  Paul Brock Inns of Court, Current;
• Member:  American Judicature Society;
• Member:  Alabama District Judges Association, (1999-Present);
• Past Board Member:  Girl Scouts of Deep South Council.