Practice Areas: Commercial Law, Real Estate, Probate, Civil Practice, Collections, Business Law, Taxation.

Admitted To Bar:
1975, North Carolina
1975, U.S. District Court, Western District of North Carolina
1979, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of North Carolina
1986, U.S. Tax Court; U.S. District Court, Eastern and Middle Districts of North Carolina

Law School: Wake Forest University, J.D., cum laude, 1975

College: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.S.B.A., 1969
University of Georgia, M.B.A., 1972

Member: Carteret County Bar Association (President, 1988)
3rd Judicial District (President, 1988)
North Carolina Bar Associations (Member, Business Law Section)
North Carolina State Bar
North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers.

Biography: Phi Kappa Phi, Member
Beta Gamma Sigma
Phi Alpha Delta
Wake Forest Law Review, 1974-1975

Author: "The Application of the Fairness Doctrine to Editorial Advertising," Wake Forest Law Review, 1974

Military: 1st Lt., U.S. Army, 1969-1971

Born: Charlotte, North Carolina, August 13, 1947