1977 

Circuit Judge Bob Bailey, Family Court Division, 15th Judicial Circuit in Montgomery, Alabama, retired in January 2021 after nine years on the bench.

Gary Smith is chairman of the Business Council of Alabama (BCA). 

1981

Hon. Charlie Crist was reelected to the U.S. House of Representatives, representing the 13th Congressional District of Florida. 

1983

Forrest Latta was named to the Alabama Board of Bar Examiners, a seven-member board that serves the Alabama Supreme Court and oversees policy and procedures for admission to the Alabama State Bar.   

1984

LaBella Alvis McCallum joined McCallum, Hoaglund and McCallum as a partner in Birmingham, Alabama.

Lindsey Allison was reelected to an eighth term on the Shelby County Commission (Alabama).  

Frank Woodson is moving to the new Mobile, Alabama, office of the Beasley Allen Law Firm. 

Hon. Scott Donaldson retired from the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals as chief judge of the Judiciary Court and opened a private practice in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.  

1986

Charlie Potts is president-elect of the Mobile Bar Association (Alabama). 

1987

Hon. Daniel Sleet was reelected to the Florida District Court of Appeals. 

Hon. William Thompson was reelected to the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals.   

Hon. Evan Jenkins was selected to serve as the chief justice for the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia for the year 2021. 

1988 

Rosalie Joy retired after a 30-year career as a public defender. She joined the National Legal Aid & Defender Association as the vice president of Defender Legal Services and chief of Integrated Programs in Washington, D.C. 

Todd Carlisle is serving a three-year term as vice-chair for the Samford University Board of Overseers.  

1989 

Christopher Todd Roper was invested as a district court judge for Judicial District 15B in Pittsboro, North Carolina.  

Rhonda Chambers is an appellate attorney with Marsh, Rickard & Bryan PC in Birmingham, Alabama.  

1990

Robert B. Aderholt was reelected to the U.S. House of Representatives, representing the 4th Congressional District of Alabama.  

William R. Chambers Jr. was named first assistant U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama.  

1991 

Worrick Robinson IV joined the Cumberland School of Law Advisory Board. Robinson is co-founder and partner of Robinson, Reagan & Young PLLC in Nashville, Tennessee.  

1992 

William McCartney is a senior vice president and wealth adviser at Truist Private Wealth Management (trust and estate services, investments, customized lending and concierge banking) in Eatonton, Georgia. 

1993 

Charles E. Atchley Jr. was confirmed to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee. 

Robert Cornish Jr. joined the Cumberland School of Law Advisory Board. Cornish is a partner of Anderson Kill in Washington, D.C.

1994 

Michael Catalano is chief operating officer for Southern Research in Birmingham, Alabama.  

1995

Mike Fish has been elected to serve on the Alabama State Bar Workers’ Compensation Section Judicial Education Committee. 

1996 

Robert Turnipseed is treasurer of the Mobile Bar Association (Alabama).

Hon. Patrick Ballard was reelected to the 10th Judicial Circuit Court for Jefferson County, Alabama. 

Hon. Martha Cook was reelected to the 10th Judicial Circuit Court, District Court–Civil Division, for Jefferson County, Alabama.

Hon. Cam Ward was appointed by Alabama Governor Ivey to be director of the Alabama Bureau of Pardons and Paroles. 

Kelle Strickland is counsel to Jackie Walorski (IN), ranking member for the 117th Congress House Ethics Committee in Washington, D.C.

William (Gus) Anthony III was appointed by Rep. Tim Moore (NC), speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, to a three-year term as a commissioner for the NC Court Services’ Office of Indigent Defense Services.   

1997

Helen Ruth "HR" Harwell was elected as president co-chair of SCORE Charlotte, a resource partner of the Small Business Administration in Charlotte, North Carolina.   

1998 

Lisa H. Dorough is counsel with Compton Jones Dresher in Birmingham, Alabama. 

Lana Olson is first vice president of DRI, the largest international organization of lawyers representing business. 

John R. Burhman was elected to the Duke University Estate Planning Council. This Estate Planning Council is in its 42nd year of existence and customarily sponsors a two-day seminar at the Duke University Law School in each October. 

Brad Parrott’s law firm merged and expanded. The firm, Hudson Lambert Parrott Walker, has offices in Atlanta, Georgia, and Greenville, South Carolina.  

1999

Kent Lauderdale was sworn in for his fourth term as mayor of Cusseta, Alabama.

2000 

Hon. Erica Woodford was reelected for a third (six-year) term as clerk of Superior Court in Bibb County, Georgia.

Jason Holly was elected as the municipal city judge in Elizabethton, Tennessee. 

2001 

Meredith Aldridge is the executive director of development for the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi.

Matthew Fridy was elected to the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals.  

Erik Heninger earned certification from the National Board of Trial Advocacy. 

2002 

Collin Brown is executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary for Physical Rehabilitation Network (PRN) in Carlsbad, California.

2003

Jessica Ventiere was appointed acting district attorney for Alabama’s 37th Judicial Circuit in Lee County, Alabama.

2005 

Scott Holmes is legal adviser and operations section chief for the City of Tuscaloosa COVID-19 incident command.  

L. Simone Washington is director of diversity, equity and inclusion for Business for Social Responsibility in New York City.

Nika Gholston is a member of the Alabama State Bar Leadership Forum, Class 15.

2007 

Jennifer Reid Egbe was appointed chair of ALFA International’s new Future Leaders Forum.

U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (AL) named Mary Blanche Neese Hankey to be his chief counsel and policy adviser. 

Keith Blackwood is the chief assistant district attorney for the Mobile County District Attorney’s Office in Mobile, Alabama.   

2008 

Anna Cates and Jonathan Williams founded Cedar Grove Law in Cedar Grove, North Carolina.  

Preston H. Neel was promoted to partner at Bradley Arant in Birmingham, Alabama.  

Meridith Hamilton Barnes is the assistant attorney general for the State of Alabama Department of Revenue.  

2009

Tiana Garner was elected the clerk of courts for Gwinnett County, Georgia.  

Lisha L. Graham is a member of the Alabama State Bar Leadership Forum, Class 15.

Rachel Sullivan is a member of the Alabama State Bar Leadership Forum, Class 15.

2010 

Whitney Kimerling is a shareholder at Lewis Thomason King Krieg & Waldrop PC in Nashville, Tennessee.

R. Menyian Woodall was selected by the Birmingham Business Journal as one of its 2020 Healthcare Heroes. Woodall serves as patient safety manager (nurse manager) at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in Birmingham, Alabama.

Lindsay Whitworth was promoted to shareholder of Maynard Cooper & Gale in Birmingham, Alabama.  

Brandi Maiorino was promoted to shareholder of Maynard Cooper & Gale in Nashville, Tennessee.  

Heather Locklar Civils became a member of Warren Averett in Birmingham, Alabama.  

C. Eric Wood is a member of the Alabama State Bar Leadership Forum, Class 15.

2011

Alex Munderloh is managing director of ASF Services LLC in Mobile, Alabama. 

2012

Neal Townsend is a partner with McClenny, Moseley & Associates in Fairhope, Alabama.  

Tina Lam is chair of the Women Lawyers Section of the Birmingham Bar Association.  

Lauren Sanderson Miller was appointed by Judge Robin Rosenberg to the plaintiffs’ steering committee in the Zantac MDL. (In Re: Zantac (Ranitidine) Products Liability Litigation, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida).

Ryan J. Letson was promoted to partner at Bradley Arant in Huntsville, Alabama.

Elizabeth “Liz” A. Eiland, of the Beasley Allen Law Firm, is a member of the Alabama State Bar Leadership Forum, Class 15.

John Sims Rhyne III was promoted to member of Burr & Forman LLP in Birmingham, Alabama

2013

Carl Chang is a trial attorney with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Birmingham, Alabama. 

Ali Barnes is an associate at Riess LeMieux LLC in New Orleans, Louisiana.  

Abigail (Abba) Bains Harris is the first ever recipient of the Jo-Ann Golden Humanitarian Award, given to her by the Southeast Region of the National Association of Women in Construction. As well, she was elected president of the Greater Birmingham Chapter.  

Al Teel is president of the Young Lawyers Section of the Birmingham Bar Association.  

George Barnhill founded Barnhill Law in Brunswick, Georgia.  

Kacey D. Davis is a member of the Alabama State Bar Leadership Forum, Class 15.  

Heather Robertson Hill is a partner of Lloyd Dinning in Linden, Alabama. She is also an assistant district attorney for the 17th Judicial Circuit including Sumter, Greene, and Marengo counties. 

Leon Hampton is a member of the Alabama State Bar Leadership Forum, Class 15.

Jarot Scarbrough is a tax manager at Anglin Reichmann Armstrong PC in Pensacola, Florida.  

Samantha-Anne Horwitch is senior director and associate general counsel for Select Energy in Houston, Texas.  

2014

Aly George is assistant counsel for Redstone Title in Huntsville, Alabama. 

Jonathan Ricky Coates is counsel for Argos Health Inc. in Augusta, Georgia.  

J.R. Davidson Jr. is an associate at Compton Jones Dresher in Birmingham, Alabama.  

Mitch Relfe is manager of Government Relations at the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) in Washington, D.C.

2015

Samuel Pierce is corporate legal counsel at Docketly Longmont in Colorado. 

F. Elizabeth Boyd is a claims representative II, at HUB International, with The Crichton Group in Memphis, Tennessee.

Brandi Rios Thompson is chief assistant district attorney for the Pataula Judicial Circuit in Georgia.   

2016 

Brook Robertson is an associate at Bradley Arant in Birmingham, Alabama.

Matthew Hoyle released his first solo album titled Ten Years Gone.

Sarah Chamberlain is corporate legal counsel for Mercedes-Benz International Inc. in Vance, Alabama. 

L. Weathers Veazey is an associate at Baker Donelson in Birmingham, Alabama

2018

Kellianne Campbell Barkley is an associate at Burke Blue PA in Panama City, Florida.   

Travis Johns is an associate at Austill Lewis Pipkin & Maddox in Birmingham, Alabama. 

2019 

Megan P. Richards is a member of the 2020 class of Leadership Tuscaloosa. 

Denzel Okinedo is a member of the Helping Heroes in Healthcare Task Force Committee of the Alabama State Bar for 2020-21. In addition, Okinedo was elected to the executive board of the Young Lawyers Section of the Birmingham Bar Association.

Krista James earned her LL.M. from the University of East Anglia in International Trade Law and is working for the U.S. Small Business Administration.  

Nelson Craig Johnson is an associate at Griffith, Lowry & Meherg LLC in Cullman, Alabama. 

Evani Patel is an associate at the Law Offices of Dawn S. Veltman in Wilmington, Delaware.

2020

Haiden Redmond is a contracts administrator at Hexagon Safety & Infrastructure in Huntsville, Alabama.

Lindsey Phillips is an associate at Burr & Forman LLP in Birmingham, Alabama.

Tucker Martin is an associate at Burr & Forman LLP in Birmingham, Alabama.  

Stephanie Smith Johnson is an associate at Wallace Jordan Ratliff & Brandt LLC in Birmingham, Alabama.  

Tylynn Griffin is an associate with EMW Law LLC in Birmingham, Alabama. 

Isabella Colombo is an associate with Spain & Gillon LLC in Birmingham, Alabama. 

Nolan Clark is an associate at Balch & Bingham LLP in Montgomery, Alabama.  

Thomas Thorneycroft is a judicial clerk for the Hon. Jay York ’81 of the 13th Judicial Circuit Court in Mobile, Alabama.  

Terrell Blakesley is an associate at Sirote & Permutt in Birmingham, Alabama.

Nathan Stotser is an associate at Sirote & Permutt in Birmingham, Alabama.

Kristyn Hardy is an associate at Starnes Davis Florie LLP in Birmingham, Alabama.

Sarah Baldwin is an associate at Bradley Arant in Birmingham, Alabama.    

Elizabeth Pilcher is an associate at Maynard Cooper & Gale in Birmingham, Alabama.  

Hugh Gainer is an associate at Maynard Cooper & Gale in Birmingham, Alabama.   

Ivey Best is an associate with Haynes & Haynes in Birmingham, Alabama. 

Taylor Dant is head of legal operations for Lawson & Murphy with offices in North Carolina and Texas. 

Kaitlyn Chomin is an associate at Rumberger, Kirk & Caldwell in Orlando, Florida.  

Jazzell Carter is an associate at Alexander Shunnarah Injury Attorneys in Birmingham, Alabama. 

Morgan McFall is an associate with Bader Scott Injury Lawyers LLC in Atlanta, Georgia.  

Sarah Morris is an associate with Bader Scott Injury Lawyers LLC in Atlanta, Georgia.  

Ruby Villalobos Adams founded Villalobos Adams Law Firm in Florence, Alabama.  

Mason Bunn is director of operations for U.S. Congressman Barry Moore (2nd Dist. AL).  

Births

Christina Lorino Schutt ’10 and Michael Schutt welcomed their daughter, Eva Brennan, on Oct. 1, 2020.  

Nelson Johnson ’19 and Courtney Johnson welcomed their son, Nathaniel Craig, on Oct. 12, 2020.

Mark English ’16 and Memorie English welcomed their son, Phillip “Bailey,” on Nov. 11, 2020.  

Ginny Willcox Leavens ’11 and Joe Leavens welcomed their daughter, Davis Britton, on Nov. 20, 2020.  

Kiel Gross Hunter ’10 and Joshua Hunter welcomed their daughter, Wyatt Ann, on Nov. 21, 2020.  

Ashlee Hightower McHugh ’11 and Michael McHugh welcomed their son, Weldon Paul, on Nov. 30, 2020.  

April Hare DeLuca ’12 and Jason DeLuca welcomed their son, Elliott Alexander on Dec. 14, 2020.   

Kathleen Bowers Ennis ’13 and Henry Ennis, welcomed their daughter, Edith (Edie) Clark, on Dec. 14, 2020.

Elizabeth Lyerly Brasher ’12 and Dale Brasher welcomed their daughter, Elle, on Jan. 6, 2021.  

Haley Colson Lewis ’13 and Zach Lewis ’13 welcomed their son, Colson William, on Jan. 8, 2021.  

Kayla Schoen Graben ’14 and Clint Graben welcomed their son, Lawrence Thatcher Hyatt, on Jan. 10, 2021.  

Katie Fish ’15 and Morgan Fish, welcomed their daughter, Eleanor Josephine, on Jan. 12, 2021.  

Marriages 

Katie Willoughby ’15 and Benjamin Keown ’17 were married on Sept. 4, 2020. 

Daniel Moss ’20 and Ally Heard ’20 were married on Oct. 10, 2020.

Leanne Jackson ’12 married Sydney Johnston on Oct. 11, 2020.

Ben Keen ’18 married Sarah Mitchum on Oct. 18, 2020.

Brandi Elliott Rios ’15 married Nicholas Thompson on Nov. 21, 2020.  

Sarah Chamberlain ’16 married Brenden Shoults on Nov. 28, 2020.  

In Memoriam 

Michael Coen ’77, of Bardstown, Kentucky, passed away on March 5, 2020.  

Calvin M. Howard ’69, of Birmingham, Alabama, passed away on Oct. 17, 2020.

Michael Keith Tedder ’89, of Atlanta and Perry, Georgia, passed away on Oct. 17, 2020.

S. Allen Baker Jr. ’73, of Birmingham, Alabama, passed away on Oct. 27, 2020. 

Ronald Lee Moore ’80, of Asheville, North Carolina, passed away on Oct. 30, 2020.

Gregory Burdine ’89, of Florence, Alabama, passed away on Dec. 13, 2020.

James Stanley Witcher ’66, of Mountain Brook, Alabama, passed away on Dec. 24, 2020.  

Robert Sibley Ogletree ’77, of Rome, Georgia, passed away on Jan. 1, 2021.   

Judge James Wendell McKenzie ’71, of Dayton, Tennessee, passed away on Jan. 2, 2021. 

Luther Rhinehart Boyd ’68, of Pass Christian, Mississippi, passed away on Jan. 4, 2021.  

Davidson Lynn Laning ’79, of Birmingham, Alabama, passed away on Jan. 11, 2021. 

Joseph Wiley Jr. ’89, of Columbus, Georgia, passed away on Jan. 16, 2021. 

Norman H. Davis Jr. ’74, of Jackson’s Gap, Alabama, passed away on Jan. 22, 2021.  

Jon Batton Terry ’77, of Bessemer, Alabama, passed away on Jan. 24, 2021.