Kristen David Adams

Georgia

State Bar of Georgia

Since 1995

11th Circuit

Georgia Supreme Court

U.S. Supreme Court

United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia

William Reece Smith, Jr. Distinguished Professor

STETSON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF LAW

2024 - Current

August 2020-August 2023: Appointed as William Reece Smith, Jr. Distinguished Professor; June 2018-June 2019: Served as Interim Dean; May 2010-May 2014: Served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; August 2006: Promoted to Professor of Law; August 2005: Awarded Tenure; June 2004-August 2006: LeRoy Highbaugh, Sr. Chair in Faculty Research (rotating, two-year position selected through a competitive process); August 2003: Promoted to Associate Professor of Law.

Associate, Litigation Group

Altman, Kritzer & Levick, P.C. Atlanta, Georgia

1998 - 1999

Associate, Trial Practice and Medical Products and Services Practice Groups

Alston & Bird LLP. Atlanta, Georgia.

1995 - 1998

Summer Associate (1994); • Part-Time Employment, School Year (1994-1995).

Summer Associate

Troutman Sanders LLP. Atlanta, Georgia.

1993 - 1994

Part-Time Employment (School Year, 1993-1994).

Yale Law School

LL.M. (2000)

Emory University School of Law

J.D. (1995)

Honors: Distinction; Emory University School of Law Full-Tuition Merit Scholarship, three years; Order of the Coif; Dean's List (all semesters); American Jurisprudence Awards or Highest Grade: Contracts, Criminal Law, Employment Law, Insurance Law, Products Liability.

Activities: Managing Editor, Emory Law Journal (1994-1995)

Rice University

B.A. (1992) | Political Science

Honors: cum laude;Phi Beta Kappa; President's Honor Roll (all semesters); Rice University National Merit Scholarship, three years; Class of 1929 Merit Scholarship, three years; Herbert and Helen Allen Merit Scholarship, three years.

Activities: Baker College Court Justice (1989-1992).

The Florida Bar

Associate Member

Current

Activities: Chair, Florida Bar Public Interest Law Section Homelessness Committee (2007-2009).

American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers

Executive Committee Member

2021 - Current

Activities: Elected to membership in 2013; Invited to serve a four-year term on the Board of Regents in 2015; Chair, Regents Nominating Committee (2017-2018); Observer, Uniform Law Commission Study Committee on the Uniform Commercial Code and Emerging Technologies.

Gulfcoast Legal Services

Member of the Board of Directors

2015 - Current

Activities: President of the Board of Directors (2020-2022).

American Bar Association, Business Law Section

Member

2000 - Current

Activities: Co-Chair, Law Student Committee (2023-Present); • Membership Development Board Liaison (2020-Present); • Publication Committee (2022-Present); • Presidential Appointment, Commission on Homelessness and Poverty (2019-2021), (Commissioner) (2021-Present) (Liaison)

State Bar of Georgia

Member

1995 - Current