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Professional Experience .
Civilian
2011-Present - University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, Georgia
Part-time Professor - Qualified to teach courses in the following disciplines:
- employment, equal opportunity, and disability law
- military law
- international law
- advanced legal document drafting
2008-2011 - University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
Director of Equal Opportunity and Disability Compliance Officer - Responsible for compliance with and enforcement of all equal opportunity (non-discrimination and anti-harassment) laws and policies for the University of Georgia, an institution of over 60,000 persons distributed over a number of locations in Georgia and overseas. Duties included training and advising all units of the University on the matters within my jurisdiction as well as investigating and adjudicating all complaints made under applicable laws and policies. I was also the University Disability Compliance Officer and performed similar duties relevant to the ADA and related laws and policies.
2000-Present - Georgia
Sole Practitioner - concentrating in land use, zoning, condemnation, employment, environmental and safety law.
1997-2000 - Kilpatrick Stockton LLP, Atlanta,
Georgia
Partner - in the environmental practice group in Atlanta office.
Practice involved representation of companies in regulated industries for a broad range of federal and state environmental law matters including CERCLA/RCRA, compliance, permitting, transactional and litigation matters. Additional experience in complex products liability litigation and commercial real estate and land use matters. Listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 1992. Rated "AV" (highest rating for experience and ethics) by Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory.
1995-1997 - Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, Atlanta, Georgia
Partner - head of environmental practice group in the firm's
Atlanta office.
Similar experience as described above.
1984-1995 - Petree Stockton, L.L.P., Attorneys, Winston-Salem, North
Carolina
Partner - responsible for establishment and development of 15-person
Environmental Practice Group of law firm of over 120 attorneys.
Previous experience in commercial real estate, condemnation and complex litigation matters.
1979-1984 - Coastal Carolina Community College, Jacksonville, North Carolina
Adjunct Professor of Business Law
Military
2001 - Retired as Colonel with 33 years' active and reserve service.
1998-2001 - Law of War Training Department, United States Marine Corps
Commanding Officer - Head, Joint Military/Civilian Teams, under Expanded International Military Education and Training Program, to conduct Rule of Law Symposia and other training to ranking civilian and military governmental officials of the Government of Hungary (5 missions during period 1992-1999).
Special Advisor, U.S. Special Operations Command
1996-1998 - Air Force Air University and Air Force Judge Advocate’s General School, Maxwell, AFB, Alabama
Professor in International and Operational Law
1986-1996 - Law of War Training Unit, United States Marine Corps
Commanding Officer - responsible for training U.S. and foreign military personnel concerning the laws of war.
1991 - Participated in Operations Desert Shield/Storm.
1977-1984 - Judge Advocate (Captain/Major), U.S. Marine Corps.
Associate Professor, College of Arts and Sciences/Marine Officer Instructor,
NROTC Unit, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA.
Chief Review Officer/Chief Defense Counsel - Marine Corps Base, Camp
Lejeune, NC.
Chief Legal Assistance Officer/Chief Defense Counsel - Marine Corps
Development and Education Command, Quantico, VA.
1971-1977 - Infantry Officer (2d Lt.-Capt.), U.S. Marine Corps.
Wounded in action and decorated for valor in Vietnam.
Platoon and company commander of special operations/reconnaissance units.
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