The Clarion-Ledger • August 29, 2010 Butler Snow - Several attorneys from the firm were recognized the in Best Lawyers in America publication in numerous practice areas. They are: Phil B. Abernethy, commercial and construction; Paula Graves Ardelean, labor and employment; Lucien L. Bourgeois, public finance; Don B. Cannada, real estate and tax; R. Barry Cannada, corporate, and mergers and acquisitions; Michael D. Caples, government relations; Tommie S. Cardin, government relations; Donald Clark Jr., public finance; John A. Crawford, environmental and water; Paul N. Davis, oil and gas; John F. England, public finance; William M. Gage, mass tort; James B. Galloway, personal injury; James B. Galloway, personal injury; John L. Galloway, real estate; Robert C. Galloway, personal Injury; Mark W. Garriga, government relations; John M. Harral, banking; J. Clifford Harrison, banking; John J. Healy III, intellectual property; John C. Henegan, appellate, bet-the-company, commercial, First Amendment; Daniel G. Hise, corporate; Donna Brown Jacobs, appellate; Charles F. Johnson, corporate, health care, and mergers and acquisitions; Christy D. Jones, personal injury, product liability and government relations; Samuel W. Keyes Jr., public finance; Ronald I. Loeb, trusts and estates; William Eugene Magee, employee benefits; Harold D. Miller Jr., alternative dispute resolution; Robert A. Miller, product liability; Meade W. Mitchell, product liability; R. Wilson Montjoy, energy, natural resources, oil and gas; Orlando R. Richmond Sr., product liability; Benjamin W. Roberson, corporate; E. Barney Robinson III, commercial; Stephen W. Rosenblatt, bankruptcy and creditor-debtor rights; Lee Davis Thames, bet-the-company, commercial, personal injury and product liability; Timothy M. Threadgill, labor and employment; Jay A. Travis III, trusts and estates; James B. Tucker, corporate governance and compliance; Gilbert C. Van Loon, employee benefits; J. Paul Varner, tax and trusts and estates; Thad W. Varner, public finance; Jeffrey A. Walker, labor and employment; Thomas Webb, workers' compensation; Joshua J. Wiener, commercial litigation; Thomas E. Williams, product liability and professional malpractice; Edward A. Wilmesherr, administrative, banking, corporate and mergers and acquisitions.
(2 of 3) Forman Perry Watkins Krutz & Tardy - Several attorneys from the firm were recognized in the Best Lawyers in America publication in numerous practice areas. They are: Steven M. Hendrix, corporate, real estate and tax; Fred Krutz, commercial, mass tort and product liability; Daniel J. Mulholland, mass tort; Alan W. Perry, banking, bet-the-company, commercial, corporate and real estate; Phillip S. Sykes, commercial, mass tort, product liability and professional malpractice; Thomas W. Tardy III, environmental, mass tort, personal injury and product liability; Walter G. Watkins Jr., commercial, environmental, mass tort, personal injury and product liability litigation; Walter G. Watkins III, mass tort.
Mississippi Court of Appeals - Elizabeth Archer has joined the staff as a law clerk for Judge James D. Maxwell II. Archer earned a bachelor's degree in history from the University of Virginia and a law degree from the University of Mississippi.
- J. Rutledge McMillin has joined the staff as a law clerk for Judge T. Kenneth Griffis Jr. McMillin earned a bachelor's degree in history from Mississippi State University and a law degree from the University of Mississippi.
- Rebekah Blakeslee has joined the staff as a law clerk for Judge David M. Ishee. Blakeslee earned a bachelor's degree in international studies and Spanish and a law degree, all from the University of Mississippi.
- Brett Richards has joined the staff as a law clerk for Judge David M. Ishee. Richards earned a bachelor's degree in speech communications from the University of Southern Mississippi and a law degree from the Mississippi College.
- Sabrina Ruffin has joined the staff as a law clerk for Chief Judge Leslie D. King. Ruffin earned a bachelor's degree in journalism and a master's degree in business administration, both from the University of Southern Mississippi, and a law degree from the Mississippi College .
Mississippi Hospital Association - J.W. Jones was named an honorary member. This distinction recognizes the outstanding public or private service within the association. Jones has worked in various capacities at Jeff Anderson Regional Medical Center since 1980.
(3 of 3) Mississippi Speech and Hearing Association - Carolyn Higdon has been selected as the next president. She takes office in January. She is an associate professor of communication sciences and disorders at the University of Mississippi. Higdon received her bachelor's and master's degrees from Kent State University and her doctorate degree from the University of Georgia.
Mississippi Supreme Court - Taylor Polk of Ridgeland joined the staff as a law clerk for Justice George C. Carlson Jr. Polk has bachelor's and master's degrees in English from Mississippi State University and a law degree from Mississippi College.
Ogletree Deakins - Herbert C. Ehrhardt and Timothy W. Lindsay were recognized in Best Lawyers in America for their work.
Phi Theta Kappa - Cheryl Carr has joined the organization as executive assistant to the associate executive director. She previously served as the executive assistant to the publisher of The Clarion-Ledger. Carr attended Holmes Community College and received bachelor's and master's degrees in business education from Delta State University.
- Clay Meyer has been named senior interactive designer. He previously worked as a senior web designer at Cellular South. Meyer earned a bachelor's degree in graphic design from Mississippi College.
Roy Anderson Corp. - Travis Coulter recently was named vice president of preconstruction. He will oversee the firm's preconstruction and estimating department. He has more than 30 years of industry experience. Coulter has a degree in civil engineering from the University of Alberta in Canada.
Watkins Ludlum - Several attorneys from the firm were recognized the in Best Lawyers in America publication in numerous practice areas. They are: Trudy B. Allen, environmental and natural resources; F. Hall Bailey, insurance, personal injury and workers' compensation;
Jeffrey R. Barber, bankruptcy and creditor-debtor rights; George F. Bloss III, First Amendment and medical malpractice; Neville H. Boschert, corporate; Alveno N. Castilla, tax; H. Mitchell Cowan, commercial; Thomas W. Crockett, alternative dispute resolution, family, family law mediation, insurance and legal malpractice; Mark T. Davis, real estate; Susan Fahey Desmond, labor and employment; William E. Dossett, tax and trust and estates; David B. Grishman, administrative, franchise, tax, and trusts and estates; Mark D. Herbert, construction; Kathryn H. Hester, land use and zoning, and natural resources; Peyton S. Irby Jr., labor and employment; Gina M. Jacobs, corporate, leveraged buyouts and private equity, and mergers and acquisitions; Kristina M. Johnson, bankruptcy and creditor-debtor rights; Linda Bounds Keng, employee benefits and trusts and estates; Henry F. Laird Jr., commercial and First Amendment; Craig N. Landrum, banking, corporate governance and compliance, corporate, and mergers and acquisitions; Robert S. Lazarus, corporate, project finance and public finance; David L. Martin, administrative, banking, corporate and insurance; Dennis W. Miller, energy and government relations; L. Keith Parsons, corporate governance and compliance, corporate and securities; Keith R. Raultson, banking, commercial, insurance, legal malpractice and personal injury; W. Whitaker Rayner, information technology and intellectual property; Joseph Henry Ros, personal injury; Thomas B. Shepherd III, corporate and gaming; Stanley Q. Smith, communications and energy; Gary P. Snyder, real estate; Zachary Taylor III, corporate, municipal, project finance, public finance and structured finance; Jim B. Tohill, real estate; Leonard D. Van Slyke Jr., First Amendment, tax, and trusts and estates; Randall B. Wall, corporate, municipal, project finance and public finance; James E. Woods, real estate. Workers' Compensation Committee - Debra Hendricks Gibbs recently was appointed to the board by the governor. Gibbs, an attorney, has an accounting degree from the University of Southern Mississippi and a master's in business administration and law degrees from Mississippi College.
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