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Alabama Law Alumni Selected as Members of Alabama State Bar’s 2016 Leadership Forum

January 14, 2016

The Alabama State Bar announced the names of 17 Alabama Law Alumni who were selected as members of the 2016 Leadership Forum Class 12.

Created in 2005, the forum has produced 318 graduates. Attorneys participate in a rigorous education and training process, focusing on servant leadership, ethics and career development. Candidates are required to attend five separate sessions, including a three-day orientation program.

“The Leadership Forum has a proven track record for catapulting its graduates further down a path of success in their careers and their personal lives,” said Alabama State Bar President Lee H. Copeland of Copeland Franco Screws & Gill, P.A. in Montgomery. “The program brings out the natural leader within each of the members, while also creating and fostering strong relationships among the participants.”

Participants have practiced law for at least five years and no more than 15 years. Candidates are selected based on demonstrated leadership qualities and service to their communities.

Alabama Law Alumni selected for the 2016 Leadership Forum Class 12 are:

Mary Margaret P. Carroll (’10), Fine Geddie & Associates, LLC (Montgomery)

Latisha V. Colvin (’01), Federal Defenders Office, Southern District of Alabama (Mobile)

Thomas G. DeLawrence (’06), Balch & Bingham, LLP (Birmingham)

Starr T. Drum (’09), Maynard Cooper & Gale, PC (Birmingham)

Christopher J. England (’02), City of Tuscaloosa (Tuscaloosa)

Heather R. Fann (’06), Boyd, Fernambucq, Dunn & Fann (Birmingham)

D. Brent Hargett (’08), Sasser, Sefton & Brown PC (Montgomery)

David W. Holt (’10), Bradley Arant Boult Cummings (Huntsville)

Carmen F. Howell (’12), Law Firm of Carmen F. Howell, LLC (Enterprise)

E. Wilson Hunter (’10), U.S. Attorney’s Office (Birmingham)

Adam K. Israel (’09), Balch & Bingham, LLP (Birmingham)

Tamara W. Neeley (’06), Watson & Neeley, LLC (Fort Payne)

Kathryn J. Osburne (’07), The University of Alabama System (Tuscaloosa)

Ryan P. Robichaux (’09), Bradley Arant Boult Cummings (Birmingham)

Stephen A. Stetson (’07), Alabama Arise (Montgomery)

C. Samuel Todd (’08), Vulcan Materials Company (Birmingham)

J. Bennett White (’06), Starnes Davis Florie LLP (Birmingham)


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