The cliff notes version is that I’ve always been incredibly interested in probably all things that pertain to the law whether it be history, social sciences, politics, the law itself. For whatever reason from a very early age that always appealed to me so I think that was always a lane that I found myself going down. But in particular, one of my family members, an uncle, was a very prominent lawyer in my small town in South Georgia and I was very close with my family, very close with my uncle in particular.

Well, my uncle that I mentioned earlier was definitely a mentor and remains a mentor to this day. And every time I go home to my hometown, I think he becomes whether he wants to be a or not a bit of a sounding board for whatever I’ve got going on. But there been others, a gentleman by the name of Tom Phillips who, unfortunately, passed away many years ago. He was a small-town practitioner much like what we are in Milledgeville, Georgia, which is where I went to college and received my undergraduate degree. And I worked for him for several months prior to going to law school. And he was a wonderful gentleman, he treated me incredibly well.

A gentleman that I represented in a very contested divorce case many years ago we were able to win custody on his behalf of his at that time, young son and he contacted me probably a year or maybe two ago just to let me know that things had gone incredibly well. His son was graduating from, I guess, boot camp with the Marine Corp and he was going to be serving our country and had become a decorated member of the United States Marine Corp. And he attributed a lot of that success in that child’s life and what we helped accomplish and that was incredibly rewarding to me.