Practice(s): Estate Administration/Probate, Estate Planning, Wills & Trusts, General Business Law, Real Estate, Taxation, Taxation-Property Born Florence, South Carolina, 1951. Admitted to bar: 1977, North Carolina. Education: Duke University (A.B., summa cum laude, 1974); Phi Beta Kappa; University of North Carolina (J.D., with honors, 1977); Board of Editors, North Carolina Law Review (1975-76); Order of the Coif. Member: North Carolina Bar Association (Business Law, Estate Planning, and Tax Professional Sections); Forsyth County Bar Association (Past President, Young Lawyers Division, 1983-1984); Winston-Salem Estate Planning Council; Wake Forest Planned Giving Council (2000-2003). Author/Teaching: Bender’s Federal Tax Service (Tax Chapter); Wake Forest Babcock School of Management, former Adjunct Tax Professor. Civic: Reynolda Rotary Club; Centenary Church member; former President of Centenary Child Care Center and prior involvement in PTA, Soccer, YMCA, and youth sports. Admitted to Practice before the Middle District of the federal court in North Carolina, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, U.S. Tax Court, and U.S. Court of Claims. |