Education:

• B.S. (1977), J.D. (1978), Louisiana State University
• LL.M.(1981), New York University

Judicial Clerkships :

• Judge Cecil C. Cutrer, Louisiana Court of Appeal, Third Circuit, Lake Charles, Louisiana, 1979-80

Areas of Expertise:

• Torts, Advanced Torts, Civil Law Obligations, Civil Law Successions & Donations, Civil Law Property, Products Liability, Comparative Law
  

PUblications:

• When the Surgeon Has HIV — What to Tell Patients About the Risk of Exposure and the Risk of Transmission, 42 Kan. L. Rev. 315 (1996); Tort Reform in Mississippi: An Appraisal of the New Law of Products Liability, Part I, 16 Miss. C. L. Rev. 393 (1996); Tort Reform in Mississippi: An Appraisal of the New Law of Products Liability, Part II, 17 Miss. C. L. Rev.277 (1997).
  
  
• Comparative Fault, 2 Encyclopedia of Mississippi Law 419 (Jeffrey Jackson, et al.,eds., 2001); Intentional Torts, 5 Encyclopedia of Mississippi Law 297 (Jeffrey Jackson, et al.,eds., 2001).
  
  

Professional ExperiencE:

• Associate Professor of Law, 1991-1996
  Professor of Law, 1996 to present
  Mississippi College School of Law

• Associate (1981-1985) and Partner (1986-1991), Snellings, Breard, Sartor, Inabnett & Trascher, Monroe, Louisiana.
  
  

Lectures, Panels and Papers Presented:

• Speaker, Joint Meeting, Mississippi and Louisiana Judicial Colleges New Orleans, Louisiana, August, 1998. Topic: Mississippi Products Liability Act of 1993.

• Panelist, Mississippi College Law Review Symposium on Judicial Selection, November 2001.

• Panelist, The State We're In (Public Affairs Program on Mississippi Public Television) Judicial Selection, November 2001.

• Panelist, Mississippi College Law Review Symposium on Tort Reform in Mississippi, November 2002.
  
  

Memberships and Admissions:

• American Bar Association
• Louisiana State Bar Association
• Christian Legal Society
  
  

Professional Activities:

• Board of Advisors, Federalist Society of Mississippi, 1995-2002

• Board of Directors, Ballet Mississippi, 1995-2000

• Board of Directors, Monroe Symphony Orchestra, Inc., 1987-91

• Member, Ouachita Parish Steering Committee for Buddy Roemer for Governor, 1987

• Delegate, Louisiana State Republican Convention, 1989

• Choir member, First Baptist Church, Jackson, Mississippi

• Substitute Bible Study Teacher, First Baptist Church, Jackson, Mississippi