A proud native of Albany, Georgia, a summa cum laude graduate of Albany State College with a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science, and a graduate of the Walter F. George School of Law at Mercer University, a 1992 CLEO fellow at the Southern University School of Law prior to attending Mercer University. CLEO is a valuable program geared towards increasing the number of minority lawyers in the United States.  She is the current treasurer for the Dougherty Circuit Bar Association.