B.A., summa cum laude, Presbyterian College, English, 1980
J.D., Vanderbilt University School of Law. 1983. Executive editor and articles editor, Vanderbilt Law Review
Clerk, Senior U.S. District Judge Virgil Pittman, Southern District of Alabama, 1983-85
Practice experience: Associate, Parker, Poe, Adams & Bernstein, Charlotte, N.C., 1985-88
Joined Cumberland faculty: 1988
Teaching and research interests: Alternative dispute resolution, civil procedure, conflicts of law, constitutional law, equitable remedies
- Expert in alternative dispute resolution, including arbitration, mediation and negotiation; civil procedure and 14th amendment state action doctrine
- Member, American Arbitration Association Panel of Arbitrators and Mediators; AAA Alabama Advisory Committee; American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution (Arbitration Committee); Association of American Law Schools Section on Dispute Resolution; and Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution; Alabama State Bar Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee (ex officio member)
- Serves as arbitrator and mediator for the Better Business Bureau and contract mediator for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
