Wade Baxley

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Ramsey, Baxley & McDougle

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND:

University of Alabama School of Law

Juris Doctor, 1968

Honors and Activities: Bench and Bar Legal Honor Society; Phi Alpha Delta - President;

Clerk of Practice Court; Chairman - Law Day 1967; Student Assistant to Professor Tom Jones.

University of Alabama

Bachelor of Science, 1965 (Accounting)

College of Commerce and Business Administration

Honors and Activities: Jasons; Student Government Association, Secretary-Treasurer

(1964-1965); C&BA Senator (1963-1964); Dean's List; Omicron Delta Kappa; Kappa Sigma Fraternity - Vice President, Treasurer; Inter-Fraternity Council, Secretary-Treasurer; Phi Eta

Sigma; Rho Alpha Tau.

University of Alabama Alumni Activity

Member, UA National Alumni Association

Member, Houston-Henry County Chapter of the UA Alumni Association

Member, UA Commerce Executives Society-Associates Executives Club

Board of Trustees, Farrah Law Society

EMPLOYMENT:

1961-1965 Boylan & King Auditors, University of Alabama (part-time)

1968-1969 Law Clerk to Judge Aubrey M. Cates, Alabama Court of Appeals

1969-present Ramsey, Baxley & McDougle Attorneys at Law

Senior Partner

General civil practice in all State and Federal Courts -

80% of practice consists of civil defense trial litigation

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATION ACTIVITY:

President, Alabama State Bar Association, 1999-2000

President-elect, Alabama State Bar Association, 1998-1999

Vice-President, Alabama State Bar Association, 1991-1992

President, Alabama Defense Lawyer's Association, 1996-1997

President, Houston County Bar Association, 1978-1979

Member, Board of Governors, American Bar Association, 2003-2006

Alabama State Delegate to American Bar Association House of Delegates,

1991-1993; 2001-2003

State Bar Delegate to the American Bar Association House of Delegates,

1989-1993; 2006-present

Member, Alabama State Bar Association Board of Bar Commissioners,

1982-1988 and 1991-1998

Member, Association of Defense Trial Attorneys

Fellow, American Bar Foundation

Fellow, Alabama Bar Foundation

Board of Trustees, Alabama Law Foundation

Board of Trustees, Alabama Lawyer's Assistance Foundation

Served as Liaison to the following Section and Standing Committees:

Section of Family Law

Standing Committee on Medical Professional Liability

Standing Committee on Lawyers' Professional Liability

Member of the following Sections/Divisions

General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Division

Family Law Section

Tort Trial & Insurance Practice Section

CIVIC AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITY:

City Attorney, City of Dothan, 1973-1981

Counsel for Dothan-Houston County Airport Authority, 1986-present

Member, Houston County Personnel Board, 1984-present

President, Dothan Kiwanis Club, 1978-1979

President, Houston County Division of the American Heart Association, 1992-1993

Member, First United Methodist Church of Dothan

Member, Dothan-Houston County Rotary Club

PERSONAL:

Wade H. Baxley was born in Dothan, Alabama, on November 1, 1943. He attended public schools in Dothan and received a B. S. in Accounting from the University of Alabama in 1965. He received his J. D. from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1968 and was admitted to the state bar that year.

Mr. Baxley served as law clerk to Associate Judge Aubrey M. Cates, Jr., of the Alabama Court of Appeals from 1968-1969, and he has been in private practice in Dothan since May of 1969. He served as City Attorney for the City of Dothan from 1973-1981 and has been retained counsel for the Dothan-Houston County Airport Authority since 1986. He is presently the senior partner in the law firm of Ramsey, Baxley & McDougle.

Mr. Baxley is a member of the Houston County Bar Association and served as its president in 1978-1979. He is a member of the American Bar Association and served on the Board of Governors for the 5th District from 2003-2006. He previously served as the Alabama State Delegate to the ABA House of Delegates and as the State Bar Delegate to the ABA House of Delegates from 1989 to 1993. He has served as a Commissioner on the Alabama State Bar Board of Bar Commissioners from 1982 to 1988 and from 1991 to 1998 for the 20th Judicial Circuit. While serving on the Board of Bar Commissioners, he was a member of the MCLE Commission, Disciplinary Commission, Character and Fitness Committee and the Supreme Court Liaison Committee. Mr. Baxley was elected and served as president of the Alabama State Bar Association for the 1999-2000 fiscal year and previously served as vice-president in 1991-1992. He served as president of the Alabama Defense Lawyers Association during 1996-1997 and has been selected to be a member of the Association of Defense Trial Attorneys. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Farrah Law Society and the Alabama Law Foundation. Mr. Baxley has also been honored to become inducted as a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a Fellow of the Alabama Law Foundation. He is a life-long member of the First United Methodist Church of Dothan, Alabama. He is currently a member of the Dothan-Houston County Rotary Club and served as president of the Dothan Kiwanis Club in 1978-1979. He has also served as president of the Houston County Division of the American Heart Association. Additionally, Mr. Baxley has been a member of the Houston County Personnel Board since 1984 and currently serves as its Chairman.

Wade is married to the former Joan Morris of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and they are the parents of two sons, Hamp and Keener and three grandchildren with one on the way.

PROFESSIONAL:

The law firm of Ramsey, Baxley & McDougle currently represents several insurance companies and their insureds in the southeast area of Alabama including CNA and State Farm.

Over the past thirty years, Mr. Baxley has been involved as defense counsel in a variety of lawsuits. He has defended W. R. Grace & Company (lightweight concrete roof decks) and Cooper Tire Company (defective tires) in product liability cases. Additionally, he has defended numerous cases involving medical and legal malpractice, automobile accidents and worker's compensation claims for insureds of CNA Insurance Companies. Recently, he has been referred a number of bad faith cases for defense by several national life, health and accident insurance companies.