Joanne E. Boyd, Esquire 

Ms. Boyd received a LL.M. in Environmental and Energy Law in 1997 from Tulane University and her Juris Doctor from the University of Alabama in 1980, where she served as the Business Manager of the Alabama Law Review and was also on the Moot Court Board. She received her undergraduate degree from The University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, in 1977, where she graduated Magna cum laude and majored in biology. 

Ms. Boyd served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable J. Foy Guin, Jr. in the Northern District of Alabama, Southern Division from 1980-1981, and Ms. Boyd served as a Commissioner to the Alabama Environmental Management Commission from 1991-1993. 

After practicing in the corporate transactional field for fifteen years, including serving as in-house counsel to two public companies in the health care and insurance fields, Ms. Boyd decided to go back to school and study for an LL.M. in Environmental Law, which she received in 1997. 

Ms. Boyd now concentrates her practice in environmental law, including acquisitions of contaminated property, administrative matters before the Alabama Department of Environmental Management and the Environmental Protection Agency, and toxic torts. She also handles all types of corporate finance and corporate transactional work, and works to help individuals and corporations with various health care reimbursement and insurance issues. Ms. Boyd was admitted to the Alabama State Bar in 1980

Curriculum Vitae
JOANNE ELIZABETH BOYD

EXPERIENCE

United States District Court Judge J. Foy Guin, Jr.
Federal Courthouse – Birmingham, Alabama
Law Clerk (August 1980 – August 1981)

Lange, Simpson, Robinson and Somerville
Birmingham, Alabama (1981-1983)
Associate. Practiced primarily in the estate and gift and corporate tax areas, including tax planning for several health care entities.

Lorant, Harris & Yearout
Birmingham, Alabama (1983-1984)
Associate. Practiced in areas of business tort and health care litigation, as well as general corporate for two hospitals, Brookwood and Medical Center East, as well as several physician practices.

Healthcare Services of America, Inc.
Birmingham, Alabama (1985-1988); General Counsel. This was a public company that owned and operated 17 psychiatric hospitals in 14 states. Work included financial (including drafting and negotiation of bank loan agreements and bridge financing prior to IPO), securities (including initial public offering and subsequent SEC filings), general corporate and health care matters, including reimbursement issues with Medicare and CHAMPUS, physician agreements, accreditation issues and medical staff issues.

Torchmark Corporation, a Fortune 500, Standard & Poor’s, insurance holding company located in Birmingham, Alabama (1989-1995)
Associate General Counsel. Areas of practice included general responsibility for legal matters of the investment department, mergers and acquisitions, real estate development, finance (including negotiation of bank loan agreements, a commercial paper program and public debt offering), insurance regulatory, general corporate and health care work.

The Vulcan Group, a holding company for three subsidiaries in the industrial coating, commercial painting and electrocoating businesses in Birmingham, Alabama. (June 1997 to November 2008).
General counsel. This is a family-owned organization with substantial environmental, OSHA and other regulatory issues and other general corporate matters, including employment, labor law, tax, financing, and corporate organizational issues.

Private practice in Birmingham, Alabama (November 2008 to date).

APPOINTMENTS

Alabama Environmental Management Commission (1990-1993)
Appointed by the Governor of Alabama to attorney position on seven person commission which oversees environmental matters for the State of Alabama, including promulgating environmental regulations and hearings of administrative appeals from the Alabama Department of Environmental Management.


EDUCATION

Tulane University – LL.M in Environmental Law 1997
GPA- 3.4 on a 4.0 scale.

The University of Alabama School of Law – Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Class of 1980 – Top 30 Percent

Honors: Moot Court Board, Best Paper Award for Labor Law; Bench and Bar Legal Honorary Society; Business Manager of Alabama Law Review

University of the South – Sewanee, Tennessee
B.A. in Biology, 1977 – Magna cum laude

Honors: Phi Beta Kappa; Order of Gownsmen
Activities; Varsity volleyball team - 4 years; captain – 2 years

Altamont School – Birmingham, Alabama – Class of 1973 – Valedictorian


Martindale-Hubbell Rating: AV