Practice Areas

  • Business and Corporate Law
  • Estate Planning
  • Probate & Estate Administration

Prior Employment

  • Media Coordinator for the Prosecution in the re-opened cases involving the 1963 16th Street Church Bombing, Birmingham, Alabama, in which four young girls were killed. Two members of the Ku Klux Klan were tried and convicted: State of AL vs Bobby Frank Cherry (2002); State of AL vs Thomas E. Blanton Jr. (2001);
  • Department of Justice, Office of the US Attorney, NDAL, Public Information Officer, (1998-2001) Spokeswoman for the US Attorney, coordinated media in high-profile cases including domestic terrorism case, US v. Eric Robert Rudolph (the Olympic Park Bomber);
  • Designee to court-appointed General Special Master in Tolbert, et al v. Monsanto and Pharmacia Corp., an environmental clean-up action involving PCB’s in the Anniston, Alabama area (Anniston PCB Superfund Site Settlement)(2009-2014);
  • Private Practice, Alabama (1993-1998; 2001-2014).

Education

  • Kennesaw State University (B.S., Communications, cum laude, 1990)
  • Cumberland School of Law at Samford University (J.D., 1993)

Memberships

  • North Carolina Bar Association

Bar Admissions

  • North Carolina State Bar, 1995
  • Alabama State Bar, 1993