B. A. - DePauw University (Mathematics and Chemistry) in Greencastle, Indiana

J. D. - Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Legal Intern, Chestnut, Sanders & Sanders in Selma, Alabama, Summer 1972 

Legal lntem, King & Phipps in Albany, Georgia, Summer 1973

Attorney Intem, NAACP Legal Defense Fund in New York, New York, June 1974 to July 1975

Associate Attorney, Anderson, Banks, Nichols & Stewart in Jackson, Mississippi,  August 1975 to December 1977

Law Office of Phillip J. Brookins in Jackson, Mississippi January 1978 to May 1978

Partner, Walker, Brookins & Walker in Jackson, Mississippi, June 1978 to May 1982

General Counsel, MNACT, Inc. in Jackson, Mississippi, May 1982 to June 1996

Nilsen v. City of Moss Point, 674 F.2d 379 (5t' Cir. 1982)

McGowan v. King, Inc., 661 F.2d 48 (5 th Cir. 1981) 

Sumrall v. Johnson, 395 So.2d 969 (Miss. 1981)

Neely v. City of Grenada, 624 F.2d 547 (5t' Cir. 1980) 

McGowan v. King, Inc., 616 F.2d 745 (5t' Cir. 1980)

Pinkston v. Scott County Board of Education, 382 So.2d 1102 (Miss. 1980) 

Truvillion v. King's Daughters Hospital, 614 F.2d 520 (5t' Cir. 1980) 

Davis v. Jackson County Port Authority, 611 F.2d 577 (5hCir. 1980) 

Laughlin v. State, 379 So.2d 86 (Miss. 1980) Ayers v. Western Line Consol. School Dist., 592 F.2d 280 (5' Cir. 1979)

Ayers v. Western Line Consol. School Dist., 555 F.2d 1309 (S' Cir. 1977) 

Hardy v. Porter, 546 F.2d 1165 (5hCir. 1977)

Rogers v. State, 338 So.2d 1005 (Miss. 1976) 

Stevenson v. State, 325 So.2d II 3 (Miss. 1975)

Rice v. Gates Rubber Co., 521 F.2d 782 (6 Ih Cir. 1975)

Stevenson v. State, 312 So.2d 10 (Miss. 1975)