
One Place of the Shoals Celebration
Pictured with Dianne Bentley are board members from One Place of the Shoals at the One Place Celebration on October 24th at The Gold Record Room in Florence. We celebrated the retirement of the mortgage on the One Place Building. Mrs. Bentley, who joined us to cut the ribbon on the building when we opened in November 2014, was happy to return to celebrate this milestone with us. For additional photos from the event, please see the album in our photo gallery.

In Memory of Jean Darby
On October 19, 2017, while standing before a jury delivering a closing argument, my colleague and friend, Jean Darby, collapsed. I, along with others in the courtroom, rushed to try to help her. As she stumbled, she said, “I'm okay; I'm fine...” She never regained consciousness. As we wrestle with her sudden loss, my faith tells me that she is, in fact, okay... and that she is just fine in her heavenly home. The legal community will remember her as a tenacious advocate for he