• FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, Tallahassee, Florida
  • The Center for Public Management, Certified Public Manager, July 2004
• THOMAS M. COOLEY LAW SCHOOL, Lansing, Michigan, Juris Doctor, Cum Laude, January 2002, Concentration in Business
  • The Thomas M. Cooley Journal of Practical and Clinical Law
  • Certificate of Merit: Estate Planning
  • Dean’s List, Honor Roll
• UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA, Tampa, Florida, Bachelor of Arts in Criminology, August 1995
• PHILADELPHIA INSTITUTE, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Diploma of General Practice in Paralegal Studies, March 1992
• UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND, European Division, College Park, Maryland
• Associate of Arts in Business and Management, January 1989

Polk County Sheriff's Office , Bartow, Florida

• Director of Legal Affairs, January 4, 2005 – Present
• Associate General Counsel, March 2002 – January 4, 2005

• Lakeland Bar Association, Secretary, Lakeland, Fl 2006 - Present
• Florida Bar Voluntary Bar Liaison Committee, 2005 - Present
• Willson American Inn of Court, 2004 – Present
• Virgil D. Hawkins Bar Association, President, Bartow, Florida, 2002 – Present
• Florida Association of Police Attorneys, 2002 – Present

• First Institutional Missionary Baptist Church, Lake Wales, FL
• Board of Directors, Lake Wales YMCA, 2005 - 2008
• Leadership Lake Wales, 2003 – 2004
• Roosevelt Alumni Green & Gold Foundation, 2003 – Present
• Bartow Rotary Club, 2002 – Present
• Kappa Omicron Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., 1998 – Present
• Lake Wales NAACP, 2007 - Present
• Lake Wales Charter School Trustee, 2007 - 2008