Admitted: 1978, Georgia, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Georgia and U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit; 1981, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit; 1983, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit; 1989, U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit; 1992, U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit
Law School: New York University, J.D.
Member: Atlanta Bar Association (Chairman, Criminal Law Section, 1989-1990; Member, Board of Directors, Criminal Law Section, 1985-1988; Co-Chair, State Practice Committee of the Appellate Practice Section, 2000-2001); State Bar of Georgia (Member, Criminal Law Section); Georgia Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (Vice-President; Member, Board of Directors, 2001-2004, Member, Legislative Committee); Georgia Innocence Project (Founding Member and Member of Case Selection Committee); National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; Lawyers Club of Atlanta.
Biography: Recipient, Rotary International Fellowship; Root-Tilden Fellow, NYU Law School; Law Clerk to the Honorable Phyllis A, Kravitch, U.S. Circuit Judge, 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, 1979-1980. Assistant United States Attorney, Northern District of Georgia, 1980-1982. Faculty, National Institute of Trial Advocacy, Emory University Law School, 1983-2004; President Elect, Harvard Club of Georgia, 2008; Member, Civil Rights Committee of the Georgia Anti Defamation League; Recognized as "Super Lawyer" in Atlanta Magazine and Georgia Super Lawyers Magazine and named as one of Georgia's Legal Elite by Georgia Trend Magazine.
Born: Indianapolis, Indiana, July 9, 1951