Practice Areas: Bankruptcy; Consumer Bankruptcy; Divorce Law.

Admitted: 1977, Alabama, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Alabama and U.S. Court of Appeals, 11th Circuit

Law School: Cumberland School of Law of Samford University, J.D., 1977

College: Memphis State University, B.S.Ed., 1970

Member: Birmingham (Member and Former Chair, Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Section) and American Bar Associations; Alabama State Bar (Charter Member, Bankruptcy and Commercial Law Section); American Bankruptcy Institute.

Biography: (Certified in Consumer Bankruptcy Law by the American Board of Certification)

Born: McAlester, Oklahoma, June 21, 1948

Honors: Best Lawyers in America 2009: Alabama SuperLawyers 2009: selected by the publication Corporate counsel to be listed in "Top Lawyers: Bankruptcy and Creditor-Debtor Law 2009."