Education:

• B.A. University of Texas at Austin with honors
  
• J.D. University of Mississippi with honors

Judicial Clerkship:

• Judge Charles Clark, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
  
  

Professional Experience:

• Misssissippi College School of Law
• Associate, Wells, Gerald, Brand, Waters, and Cox
• Partner, Miller, Milam, Johnson and Moeller
  
  

Areas of Expertise:

• Criminal Law
• Criminal Procedure
• Labor Law
• Employment Discrimination
  
  

Journals, Articles, & Notes:

• Rehabilitate the Age Discrimination in Employment Act: Resuscitate the “Reasonable Factors Other than Age” Defense and the Disparate Impact Theory. 55 Hastings Law Review 1399(2004).
  
  
• License to Harass Women: Requiring Hostile Environment Sexual Harassment to Be “Severe or Pervasive” Discriminates Among “Terms and Conditions of Employment, 62 U.OF MARYLAND. L. REV. 85 (2003).
  
  
• A Uniform Standard for Exemplary Damages in Employment Discrimination Cases, 33 U. OF RICHMOND L. REV. 41 (1999).
  
  
• Semantic Cover for Age Discrimination: Twilight of the ADEA, 42 WAYNE STATE L. REV. 1 (1995).
  
  
• A Standard for Punitive Damages Under Title VII 46 FLORIDA LAW REVIEW 521 (1995).
  
  
• Rebuilding The Barriers: The Trend In Employment Discrimination Class Actions. 19 COLUMBIA HUMAN RIGHTS LAW REVIEW 1 (1988).
  
  
• Protected Concerted Activity in the Non-Union Context: Limitations on the Employer's Rights to Discipline or Discharge Employees, 49 MISS. L.J. 839 (1979).
  
  
• Contributed to 1983 Supplement Schlei and Grossman's Employment
  Discrimination Law, to 1983-1985 supplement and to 1989 and 1996
  Cumulative Supplements of the same work.
  
  
• Comment, The Public Trust Doctrine, 46 MISS. L.J. 84 (1975).
  
  
• Note, Equal Pay Act, 44 MISS. 1028 (1973).
  
  Work in Progress:
  
• Too Sick to Work: Alcoholism under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
  
  

Panels:

• "Love It Or Leave It; An Examination of the Need For A Class Action Rule in Mississippi." Feb. 2005.
  

Memberships & Admissions:

• Member, American Bar Association, Mississippi Bar, Hinds County Bar Association, Women Lawyer's Association
  
  
• Administrative Office of the Courts,
  Judicial Advisory Study Committee Chair, Subcommittee on Criminal Law Reform 1994-present.
  
  
• St. Philip's Episcopal Church Alter Guild
  
  

Honors:

• Fellows of the Mississippi Bar
• Fellows of the Young Lawyers' Section
• Bencher, Charles Clark American Inn of Court
• First Year Professor of the Year 1997; 1999
• Secretary, Mississippi Bar Young Lawyers' Section
• President, Hinds County Bar Association
• President, Jackson Young Lawyers' Association
• Chair, Mississippi Law Institute
• Mississippi Law Journal Editorial Board