Judge John L. Carroll, dean and Ethel P. Malugen Professor of Law at Samford University's Cumberland School of Law, has been named to the boards of directors of two important national law reform organizations, the American Judicature Society and the Sedona Conference.

The American Judicature Society is a non-partisan organization with a national membership of judges, lawyers and non-legally trained citizens interested in the administration of justice. The Society focuses on issues relating to judicial independence, judicial conduct and ethics, judicial selection and the jury system.

The Sedona Conference is an organization that exists to allow leading jurists, lawyers, experts, academicians and others at the cutting edge of antitrust law, complex litigation and intellectual property to come together in conferences and mini-think tanks (working groups) to engage in meaningful dialogue, not debate, to move the law forward in a reasoned and just way.

Carroll, a former U.S. magistrate judge for the Middle District of Alabama, has served as Cumberland dean since 2001. He also served previously as legal director for the Southern Poverty Law Center. Carroll holds an undergraduate degree from Tufts University and law degrees from Cumberland and Harvard University.