Bar Fellowship
in the Alabama Law Foundation, which promotes access to justice for the poor. He is also President of the Montgomery Cumberland Law School Club. He is a former member of the Finance Committee for the Access to Justice Commission, which was founded by the Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court to find new ways to provide access to justice for the poor in Alabama.
In 2009, Tom was selected as a Fellow in the American Bar Foundation. The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation is an honorary organization of lawyers, judges and legal scholars whose public and private careers have demonstrated outstanding dedication to the welfare of their communities and to the highest principles of the legal profession. Fellows are nominated by their peers.
Tom is a former President of the Montgomery County Bar Association (1996) and the former President of the Montgomery County Trial Lawyers Association (1996), and a current member of the Alabama Association of Justice Executive Committee and the Million Dollar Advocates Forum.
Tom is Past President of the Board of Directors for Brantwood Children's Home, a home for abused and neglected children, and still active in support of the organization and the children it serves; he also is on the Board for Let God Arise Ministries, a prison ministry, and serves on the Cystic Fibrosis Advisory Panel, which helps fight the terrible disease of CF. In 2009, he received the Sheena Diane Ayers Humanitarian Award for his longtime service and support for the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.
Qualifications
Memberships
• Montgomery County Bar Association (President, 1996)
• Montgomery County Trial Lawyers Association (President, 1996)
• Alabama State Bar (President, 2009-2010)
• Board of Bar Commissioners of the Alabama State Bar (1998 to 2007)
• Executive Council of the Alabama State Bar Association (2002 - 2003; 2005 - 2006)
• Alabama Association for Justice f/k/a Alabama Trial Lawyers Association (Executive Committee)
• American Association for Justice
• American Bar Association
• Christian Legal Society
• Public Justice Foundation
• Federal Bar Association Million Dollar Advocates Forum
• The Fellows of the American Bar Foundation
Awards
• Super Lawyers
• AV Rated
• Best Lawyers 2012
• Million Dollar Advocates Forum
• Chambers USA - Plaintiff Litigation - Alabama - Band 2