Bar/Professional Activity:

• Southeastern Admiralty Law Institute - Port Director for North Carolina, 1992, 2009
• Eastern North Carolina Inn of Court
• Southeast Admiralty Law Institute
• American Association for Justice
• North Carolina Advocates for Justice
• North Carolina Bar Association
• Carteret County Bar Association
• Board of Law Examinters for the State of North Carolina - Bar Candidate Committee for the Third Judicial District, 2007-2008
• United States District Court, Eastern District of North Carolina - Admiralty Local Rules Committee, 1996-1997, 2007
• United States District Court, Eastern District of North Carolina - Local Rules Committee, 2006-2008
• North Carolina Bar Foundation - First Biennial Admiralty Law Seminars - Course Planner, 1988
• North Carolina Bar Foundation - Second Biennial Admiralty Law Seminars - Course Planner, 1989
• United States District Court, Eastern District of North Carolina - Magistrate Judge Selection Committee, 2003

Pro bono/Community Service:

• Board of Directors, Maritime Research Institute;Archeological Advisory Board, Queen Anne's Revenge Shipwreck Project (Blackbeard's flagship) North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources;Town of Beaufort, North Carolina, Board of Adjustment.

Scholarly Lectures and Writings:

• Topics: THE JONES ACT, 46 U.S.C. 688; MAINTENANCE AND CURE; TREASURE SALVAGE AND IN REM JURISDICTION, Speaker, North Carolina Bar Foundation Admiralty Law Seminar, NC Bar Foundation, 1988
• Topics: THE JONES ACT; SALVAGE, Speaker, North Carolina Bar Foundation Admiralty Law Seminar, NC Bar Foundation, 1990
• Topic: ADMIRALTY LAW AND TREASURE SALVAGE., Speaker, North Carolina Verbatim Reporters Association Annual Meeting, NC Verbatim Reporters Association, 1992
• Topic: THE JONES ACT, Speaker, North Carolina Bar Foundation Admiralty Law Seminar, NC Bar Foundation, 1993
• Topic: THE FEDERAL OCCUPATION OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA DURING THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES., Speaker, Beaufort Historial Assocation, 1995
• Topic: THE CIVIL WAR IN COASTAL NORTH CAROLINA., Speaker, Friends Of Fort Macon, 1996
• Topic: THE RECOVERY OF SHIPWRECKS OF HISTORICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE., Speaker, North Carolina Bar Association, Senior Lawyers Fall Meeting, NC Bar Association, 1997
• Kell, Jean Bruyere.  North Carolina's Coastal Carteret County During The Civil War., Chapter Author, Chapter: The Federal Occupation of Morehead City and Beaufort, 1999
• Topic: RIPARIAN RIGHTS, LITTORAL RIGHTS AND OTHER ISSUES IMPACTING OWNERSHIP OF WATERFRONT PROPERTY., Speaker, Real Property Update for Attorneys and Paralegals, Fidelity National Title Insurance Company, 2008

Educational Background:

• East Carolina University, B.A., Member: Phi Sigma Phi and Phi Alpha Theta Honor Societies, 1976
• Campbell University - Norman A. Wiggins School of Law, Juris Doctorate, 1980