Practice includes all aspects of appellate representation before the State and Federal Appellate Courts of Indiana and Kentucky. More than five years experience as a judicial law clerk, serving in legal capacities in the Indiana Court of Appeals, the Allen County Superior Court, the U.S. District Court and the United States Attorney office. Selected for inclusion in the Rising Stars list published in 2010 Indiana Super Lawyers®.
Education
· Indiana University (B.A., Mathematics, French & Sociology, 1997)
· Indiana University School of Law (J.D., 2000)
§ Served as Editor-in-Chief of the Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies, 1999 – 2000
§ Moot Court participant in 1998 – 1999, honored as the author of one of the Top 16 Briefs
· Indianapolis Bar Association Bar Leader Series III, September 2005 – May 2006
Legal Experience
· Law Clerk, Indiana Court of Appeals, Indianapolis, IN
§ Served as Law Clerk for Judge L. Mark Bailey, 2003 – 2006
§ Served as Law Clerk for Judge John T. Sharpnack, 2001 – 2003
· Law Clerk, Allen County (Indiana) Superior Court Civil Division, Fort Wayne, IN
§ Served as judicial clerk at Trial Level under Judges Daniel G. Heath and David J. Avery, 2000 – 2001
· Legal Intern, United States District Court, Indianapolis, IN
§ Served as an intern for Judge Larry J. McKinney, 1999
Member
· Indiana State Bar Association
§ Appellate Section – Treasurer, 2009-present; District I Council Representative, 2007-2009
§ Appellate Skills Seminar, Planning Committee and Presenter, 2009
§ Evening with the Appellate Judges Committee, 2009, 2010
§ Contributor to the Indiana Appellate Practice Manual, 2008
§ Appellate Rules Update Committee, 2008
· Kentucky State Bar Association
· American Bar Association (ABA)
§ Appellate Division
§ 14th Appellate Practice Institute, Participant, 2009
· Council of Appellate Lawyers (CAL)
§ Board Member of Executive Committee, Representing the Interests of Indiana, 2009-2011
§ Editor of CAL Journal Appellate Issues, 2009 - present
· Floyd County Bar Association
§ Vice President, 2010 – present
§ Secretary-Treasurer, 2009 – 2010
· Louisville Bar Association (LBA)
§ Appellate Section
· Seventh Circuit Bar Association
· Sherman Minton Inns of Court
· Defense Trial Counsel of Indiana (DTCI)
· Defense Research Institute (DRI)
§ Appellate Advocacy Committee Member
· One Southern Indiana Chamber of Commerce
Civic & Charitable Activities
· National Alliance for the Mentally Ill (NAMI) – volunteer
· Junior Achievement of Southern Indiana – volunteer teacher of 9th grade students at Silver Creek High School, New Albany, IN
Author & Speaker
· Author, United States Supreme Court To Determine The Constitutionality Of The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, Created By Title I Of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: Free Enterprise Fund v. Public Company Oversight Board, 537 F.3d 667 (D.C. Cir. 2008), cert. granted 129 S. Ct. 2378 (2009), 8 Appellate Issues, Volume 2, (2009)
· Presenter, How To Draft An Appellate Statement Of Facts, Panel Discussion for the Appellate Skills Institute, 2009
· Author, Working Toward a Global Discourse on Children’s Rights: The Problem of Unaccompanied Children and the International Response to Their Plight, 7 IND. J. Global Studies 299 (1999)
· Author, China’s Newly Enacted Intercountry Adoption Law: Friend or Foe?, 7 IND. J. Global Legal Studies 369 (1999)
Admitted to Practice
· Admitted to bar, 2000, Indiana, 2006, Kentucky
· Admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts, Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana, Eastern and Western Districts of Kentucky
· Admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth and Seventh Circuits
Place of Birth
· Jeffersonville, Indiana, December 2, 1974
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