BORN:  Norfolk, Virginia, September 19, 1939.

EDUCATION:  Public elementary schools; Murphy High School, 1957; University of Alabama, B. S. Degree, 1961; University School of Law, LL.B. Degree, 1962.

MILITARY:  United States Army, 2nd Lieutenant, Korea; discharged 1st Lieutenant, Quartermaster Corps; Captain, U. S. Army Reserve.

PRACTICE OF LAW:  Admitted to practice law before all Alabama courts in 1962; U. S. District Court for the Southern District of Alabama, 1962; Fifth U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals, 1968; U. S. Supreme Court, 1969; U. S. Court of Claims 1978; Eleventh U. S. Circuit Court of Appeals 1981; U. S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama, 1988.

In private practice of law in Mobile from 1964 until appointed Circuit Judge in 1999; Assistant County Attorney, 1969-1981; Special Assistant Attorney General, 1971-81; Chief Counsel for Mobile County Probate Judge, 1983-99.

Elected to Alabama House of Representatives in 1966; served eight years; member of Judiciary and Local Legislation Committees.

CURRENT MEMBER:  St. Paul’s Episcopal Church; Mobile Bar Association; Alabama Bar Association, American Bar Association, American Judicature Society, American Inns of Court, and Sunrise Rotary Club.