Hometown
Meridian, Mississippi
Education
Undergraduate: Millsaps College
- B.S. in Math
- Graduated 1995 Cum Laude
Law School: Mississippi College School of Law
- Graduated 1998 Magna Cum Laude
- Member of the Law Review
- Recipient of the Frank Ming Deramus scholarship.
Legal Experience
- Admitted to Practice in all Mississippi State and Federal Courts and in the Supreme Court of
Mississippi as well as the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
- Has appeared before all Judges in the Mississippi Workers’ Compensation Commission.
- Successfully represented countless number of injured clients in settlements, trials, and on appeals to the Workers’ Compensation Full Commission and to the Court of Appeals of Mississippi.
- Served as Bentonia Municipal Court Judge for over 10 years.
Professional Activities/Awards
- American Association for Justice (AAJ)
- Mississippi Association for Justice (MAJ, Lifetime Member)
- Recipient of the 2012 Stone Pony Award by the Mississippi Association for Justice.
- Mississippi Bar
- Capital Area Bar Association
- Served in many capacities for the Mississippi Association for Justice, the largest trial lawyer
organization in Mississippi, including as President of the organization 2013-2014.
- Recipient of the 2015 Law Related Public Education Award by the Mississippi Bar Foundation.
- Inducted into the Mississippi College School of Law Chapter of The Order of Barristers.
- Selected as a finalist for Best Local Lawyer and Best Plaintiff’s Attorney by Jackson
Free Press – Best of Jackson in 2017.
- Selected as a finalist for Best Local Lawyer by Jackson Free Press – Best of Jackson in 2019.
- Selected as a finalist for Best Local Lawyer by Jackson Free Press – Best of Jackson in 2020.
- Selected as a finalist for Best Local Lawyer and Best Personal Injury Attorney by Jackson
Free Press – Best of Jackson in 2021.