• Drafted and negotiated multiple manufacturing and supply agreements for the manufacture of finished products, active pharmaceutical ingredients, antigens, and other components, including packaging materials and packaging services; examples include manufacture and supply agreements for APIs for various pet parasiticides, for an equine joint dysfunction finished product, and an agreement for the supply of twenty-plus antigens for use in vaccines sold in numerous countries (with a competitor as the supplier).

• Drafted and negotiated numerous complex license, research & development agreements for various pharmaceutical and biological molecules and finished products, including an innovative blockbuster companion animal flea and tick molecule.

• Drafted and negotiated multi-year third party logistics transportation and distribution agreement with international TPL.

• Advised on various regulatory matters, including several highly sensitive inspection matters and various labeling topics, e.g., new product labels, country of origin amendments, and California Prop 65 warnings.

• Served as lead legal advisor to numerous internal manufacturing sites in the US, Puerto Rico, and New Zealand, and provided secondary legal support for manufacturing sites located in other countries.

• Lead in-house counsel for two stock acquisition agreements for minority interest in start-up human and animal health pharmaceutical tech company.

• Lead in-house counsel for two significant divestitures of real and personal property, including divestment of operational assets.

• Drafted and negotiated asset sale agreement for two US FDA animal-health product registrations.

• Drafted and negotiated various warehousing and distribution agreements, including agreements with federal and state agencies.

• Drafted numerous distribution, agency, and sales agreements designed to, among other things, protect intellectual property rights, including goodwill and other reputational issues.

• Panelist, Women’s In-House Counsel Leadership Institute, “Income Statement (Revenue and Expenses) Webinar” (July 2017) 

• Panelist, CLE program, “Lawyers as Leaders”, W&M College of Law (2016 & 2014)

• Panelist, CLE Seminar “In-house Insights”, Atlanta Bar Association (October 2015)

• Panelist, “Deal Skills,” International Transactions Seminar, Emory Law School (April 2015)

• Rainbow Village Women’s Giving Circle

  • Chair (January 2023 to present)

• United Way of Metro Atlanta

  • Gwinnett Advisory Board (2016-2022)

• Rainbow Village, Inc.

  • Board of Directors (2018-2022, 2010-2016)

  • Chair (2019-2020; 2013-2014), Vice Chair (2012)

  • Chair, Development Committee (2018-2021)

  • Chair, Programs Committee (2021-2022)

• WCSCC Charities, Inc.

  • President (June 2014- June 2016)

  • Board Member (2011-2022)

• William & Mary Law School Alumni Association

  • President (2018)

  • Member (2012-2019);

• Leadership Gwinnett

  • Co-Chair, Education Learning Day, Classes of 2012 & 2013

  • Selection Committee (2015 & 2106)

  • Economics Learning Day Committee Member, Classes 2016 & 2017)

  • W&M Law School Reunion Committee (Co-Chair, 15th Year Reunion; Committee Member 5th, 10th, 20th, and 25th Reunions)

• Hi-Hope Service Center

  • Board of Directors (2012-2015)

College of William & Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of Law, J.D., 1994

• Class Rank – 6th out of 200 Honors:
• George Wythe Award – for leadership, service, and scholastic achievement
• William & Mary Law Review
• James W. Perkins Memorial Trust Scholarship – Second and Third Years
• Highest Grade Awards — Contracts I; International Law; First Amendment Law
• I’anson Hoffman American Inn of Court
• Teaching Assistant – Second and Third Years for Two- Year Legal Skills Program

Vanderbilt University, George Peabody College for Teachers, B.S. in Elementary and Special Education

• magna cum laude