Education:

• Mississippi College School of Law, Jackson, MS,  J.D., with High Honors, 1991   

  Law Review  --  Articles Editor, National Moot Court Competition Team,  Phi Delta Phi

• University of Texas, Austin, Texas, B.F.A., with High Honors, 1975

Areas of Expertise:

• Child Advocacy Issues
  

Professional Experience:

•    9/02-current -- Instructor of Law, Mississippi College School of Law, Jackson, MS -- Courses taught include Childrens’ Issues in Chancery Court,  Juvenile Legal Issues Seminar, Legal Analysis, Legal Writing

•    1/99 - current -- Coordinator of Child Advocacy Programs, Mississippi College School of Law, Jackson, MS

•   9/96 - 12/96 -- Adjunct Professor, Legal Writing and Research, Mississippi College School of Law, Jackson, MS

•   9/91 - 9/93 -- Associate Attorney, Brunini, Granthum, Grower & Hewes, Jackson, MS

• Summer 1990 -- Law Clerk, Brunini, Granthum, Grower & Hewes, Jackson, MS and Wise, Carter, Carroway & Childs, Jackson, MS

• Summer 1989 -- Law Clerk, Butler, Snow, O'Mara & Cannada, Jackson and Brunini, Granthum, Growe & Hewes, Jackson, MS

Publications:

• Note, Hurdling New Procedural Guidelines in  Disparate Impact Cases, 10 Miss. C.L. Rev 211(1990)                             

  
  
  

Professional memberships :

• Member- Board of Directors for the Madison County Coalition for Children and Youth

• Member –Citizens Review Panel for the Mississippi Department of Human Services Youth and Family Services

• Member - Central Medical Association Auxilliary
  
  

   

Volunteer work:

• American Heart Association, Art for Heart, Event Co-Chairman

• American Heart Association, Art for Heart, Silent Auction Chairman
• St. Andrew’s Designer Showhouse
• Gabriel’s Gifts Volunteer

Bar Admissions:

• Mississippi Bar Association