Education

• J.D., West Virginia University College of Law (1975)
  • West Virginia Law Review, Lead Articles Editor
  • Phi Delta Phi
• B.A., University of Virginia (1972)
  • With Distinction
  • Alpha Phi Omega
  • Jefferson Literary and Debating Society
  • John B. Minor Pre-Legal Society

Bar Admissions

• West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
• U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia

Affiliations

• American Bar Association
• West Virginia State Bar
• Board of Governors, Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia, Inc.
• Defense Research Institute
• Read Aloud West Virginia
• Personnel Committee, United Way of the Eastern Panhandle
• Board Member and Secretary, Friends of the National Conservation Training Center, Inc.
• Board Member, Shenandoah Valley Medical Systems, Inc.
• Board Member, Shenandoah Community Health Foundation
• Past President, Berkeley County Bar Association

Professional Highlights

• Permanent Member, U.S. 4th Circuit Judicial Conference
• 2008 West Virginia Bar Foundation Fellow 
• Group Leader, Bowles Rice Business Litigation Group
• Named to Best Lawyers in America (Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Litigation - Construction, Litigation - Labor and Employment)
• Listed in Super Lawyers - Business Litigation