Education:

• J.D., University of Tennessee College of Law, Knoxville, TN, 1998
  Editor in Chief, Tennessee Law Review, 1997-1998
  Judge Harry W. Laughlin, Jr. Best Note Award, 1997
  
• M.P.P., Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, 1995
  
• B.A., English, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, 1990
  
  

Judicial Clerkships:

• The Honorable Deanell R. Tacha, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, Lawrence, KS, 1999-2000

• The Honorable Thomas A. Wiseman, Jr., United States District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee, Nashville, TN, 1998-1999
  

Areas of Expertise :

• Civil Procedure

• Conflict of Laws

• Federal Courts
  

Professional Experience:

• Assistant Professor, Mississippi College School of Law, 2003-present

• Legal Writing Fellow, University of Maine School of Law, 2002-2003

• Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Washburn University School of law, 2001-2002

• Associate, Morrison & Foerster LLP, San Francisco, CA, 2000-2001

  
  

Articles & Publications:

• Distinguishing Certification from Abstention: Postponement Versus Abdication of the Duty to Exercise Jurisdiction, 38 Rutgers L.J. __ (2007).

• Book Review, Law and Politics Book Review, Vol. 16, No. 9 (Sept. 2006) (http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/peppers0906.htm) (reviewing Todd C. Peppers, Courtiers of the Marble Palace: The Rise and Influence of the Supreme Court Law Clerk (2006)).

• Foreword: Love It or Leave It: An Examination of the Need For and Structure of a Class Action Rule in Mississippi, 24 Miss C.L. Rev 145 (2005).

• Note, Civil Forfeiture and Innocent Owners, 64 Tenn. L. Rev. 195 (1996)
  

Presentations and Conferences:

• Moderator, Hurricane Katrina: A Legal Symposium, Miss. C. Sch. L. (2006).

• Ascertaining State Law in Diversity Cases: When Should Federal Appellate Courts Predict and When Should They Certify? (2006 Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting).

• Ascertaining State Law in Diversity Cases: When Should Federal Appellate Courts Predict and When Should They Certify? (Poster Presentation, 2006 American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting)
  

• Participant, LSAC Newcomers Workshop for New Admission Personnel and Faculty Members of Admission Committees (Philadelphia, PA 2004)

  
  

Law School Service:

             Law School Committees

•               Faculty Recruitment, Fall 2006
•               Admissions, 2003-present
•               Legal Writing, 2004

Faculty Advisor

•               Mississippi College Law Review, Spring 2006-present
•               Judicial Clerkships, Spring 2005-present
•               Mississippi College School of Law Young Democrats, Spring         2005-present

Professional memberships and activities:

• California Bar

• American Association of Law Schools (Civil Procedure, Conflict of Laws, and Federal Courts Sections)

• American Bar Association

• Charles E. Clark Inn, American Inns of Court (2004-present)
  

Honors AND PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS:

• Keady Inn of Phi Delta Phi International Legal Fraternity Professor of the Year, 2006-2007
  
  

Community Service:

• Board of Directors, March of Dimes (Mississippi Chapter)

• Board of Directors, CASA Mississippi, Inc. 2003-present
  - Secretary, 2004-present
  - Diversity Committee, 2005-Present

• Volunteer, American Cancer Society Relay For Life, Jackson, MS, 2005

• Volunteer, CASA, Nashville, TN, 1993-1995

• Volunteer, CASA, Boston, MA, 1991-1993