EDUCATION
B.S., with High Honors, 1981
University of Tennessee
Doctor of Jurisprudence, 1984
University of Tennessee College of Law
Master of Liberal Arts, 1995
Southern Methodist University
ADMITTED TO PRACTICE
State Bar of Texas, 1986
U.S. District Court
Northern District, 1986
PROFESSIONAL
EXPERIENCE
Former Civil
Prosecutor, U.S. Federal Trade Commission
Southwest Regional Office, Dallas, Texas 1986-2007
Former Judicial Clerk
for the Hon. Samuel Lewis, Tennessee Court of Appeals
Middle District, Nashville, Tennessee 1985
Adjunct Instructor - American Government and Political
Science
Brookhaven College, Dallas, Texas 1995 to present
Adjunct Professor - Business Law
University of Dallas Graduate School of Management
Irving, Texas 1986-1996
PROFESSIONAL AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
Dallas Bar Association
Member and Former Chair, Community Involvement Committee
Chair, Community Education Sub-committee
Tarrant County Bar Association
Member
American Constitution Society for Law and Policy
Member
Farmers Branch Chamber of Commerce
Member
Sierra Club
Lone Star Chapter
Executive Committee Member, State Political Chair
Dallas Group
Member and Group Political Chair
City of Addison, Texas
Board of Zoning Adjustment
Former Commissioner
Dallas-Saratov Sister City, Inc.
President
Dallas Democratic Forum
Vice-President
DFW International Community Alliance
Vice Chair and Board Member
Dallas Committe on Foreign Relations
Member
World Affairs Council of DFW
Member
National Truman Scholar Association
Former Vice President
University of Tennessee Alumni Association, DFW Chapter
Former President
PUBLISHED
ARTICLES
Constitutional Law:
The Prosecutor’s Use of the Peremptory Challenge to Effect the Racial
Composition of Juries – Sixth and Fourteenth Amendment Implications, Tennessee Law Review, p. 385,Vol.
50,
Winter 1983.
Common Law Doctrines of De Facto Incorporation and
Corporation by Estoppel, Tennessee
Judicial Newsletter, March, 1985.
General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Master of Political
Masquerade: Patriot or
Political
Opportunist?, South Texas Studies,
1997.
