Personal injury, medical malpractice, product liability, contracts, general commercial matters, construction, condemnation, family, employment, real estate, and trusts & estates.
Credentials
Judge, 2nd Circuit Court, Virginia Beach, 1989-1997; Chief Judge, 1997-2008.
Former Managing Partner, Pender & Coward.
Past President, Virginia Beach Bar Association.
Current Member, Executive Committee, Judicial Conference of Virginia.
Certified Mediator, Supreme Court of Virginia.
Current Member, Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee of the Judicial Inquiry and Review Commission.
Former Member, Second District Ethics Committee, Virginia State Bar.
Former Faculty, Virginia State Bar Professionalism Course.
Former Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Former Director, Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Hampton Roads.
Founder and Mentor, Seatack Elementary School Mentoring Program.
Former Director, Norfolk Forum.
Listed as Legal Elite in the field of alternative dispute resolution in Virginia Business Magazine, 2010.
Recipient of numerous awards including: 2008 Recipient of the Harry L. Carrico Outstanding Career Service Award; Human Rights Award from the Virginia Beach Human Rights Commission (2001); Governor’s Award for Outstanding Civic Engagement (2004); Community Service Award from the Virginia Beach Bar Association (2005).
College of William & Mary, J.D.
Mount Union College, BA.
