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

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: 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, 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: THE RECOVERY OF SHIPWRECKS OF HISTORICAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE., Speaker, North Carolina Bar Association, Senior Lawyers Fall Meeting, NC Bar Association, 1997, Topic: THE CIVIL WAR IN COASTAL NORTH CAROLINA., Speaker, Friends Of Fort Macon, 1996, Topic: THE FEDERAL OCCUPATION OF EASTERN NORTH CAROLINA DURING THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES., Speaker, Beaufort Historial Assocation, 1995, Topic: THE JONES ACT, Speaker, North Carolina Bar Foundation Admiralty Law Seminar, NC Bar Foundation, 1993, Topic: ADMIRALTY LAW AND TREASURE SALVAGE., Speaker, North Carolina Verbatim Reporters Association Annual Meeting, NC Verbatim Reporters Association, 1992, Topics: THE JONES ACT; SALVAGE, Speaker, North Carolina Bar Foundation Admiralty Law Seminar, NC Bar Foundation, 1990, 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

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