Being a lawyer was not where I thought my career path would lead. My original ambition was to be an English teacher. However, as I pursued my degree at my hometown college, Virginia Intermont, I found that I wanted to not only teach others but advocate for others as well. I graduated with highest honors from Virginia Intermont and pursued my law degree from Campbell University’s Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law. In 2012 I graduated from Campbell with high honors and passed the North Carolina Bar. I returned home to Southwest Virginia and became licensed in Virginia in early 2013. As of late 2025, I have been provisionally accepted into the Tennessee Bar to further expand my practice and those I serve.

For over 12 years I have served my community in many capacities. For the first year of my practice, I served as a magistrate who aided both the public and law enforcement with criminal charges, search warrants and mental health emergency custody orders. In my second year of practice, I served as a Title IX Coordinator at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia where I was responsible for hearing and adjudicating claims involving student’s academic and sexual misconduct claims.

But what has always had my heart, soul, and passion is advocating for families. For a decade now I have dedicated my practice to serving my community as a divorce and estate planning attorney. I must be a glutton for punishment because I picked two of the most emotionally challenging phases of a person’s life to be my primary focuses of advocacy. Life, death, marriage, and divorce, affect everyone regardless of status, wealth, education or ethnicity and I meet them head on every single day.

Contested divorces are gut wrenching, financially draining, and mentally tiresome. Most attorneys refuse to handle any contested divorce because of the emotional toil, time and energy clients require throughout their separation and ultimate divorce. Likewise, estate planning requires deep thought and precise use of language.

In my decade of practice, I have litigated and negotiated more divorces and custody disputes than I can count. I have also prepared more wills, powers of attorney, advanced medical directives and trusts then I could possibly number.

I have represented individuals with large wealth portfolios and those who were living paycheck to paycheck. Regardless of financial status, all clients deserve someone who will genuinely listen and then offer honest but practical advice. There are times clients need a pit bull to fight and there are times clients need someone who can tactfully negotiate an agreement with discernment and grace. While I am not afraid of any fight in a courtroom, I can also negotiate agreements with a firm hand and strategic approach.

With almost every consult or client I encounter, I often wear many hats- lawyer, advisor, therapist, scape goat, pit bull, and most often the shoulder to lean and cry on. I see people on their worst days. I often bear the brunt of their anger, hurt and fear. I watch people fall apart. But…. I also get to see people find happiness, freedom, stability and emotional well-being. And for me there is no greater purpose or higher calling. I am blessed beyond all measure and called to this higher purpose. I end with this verse “Let us not grow weary in well doing- for in due season we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.”

Whether you need a pit bull or a negotiator I hope you give us a call.
As always, I hope to see you soon.