Background
Cross, Richard G. was born on January 13, 1952 in Eutaw, Alabama, United States.
Cross, Richard G. was born on January 13, 1952 in Eutaw, Alabama, United States.
University of Alabama (Bachelor of Science, 1973. Juris Doctor, 1995).
Worked at Pruitt, Pruitt and Watkins, P.A. (Livingston, Alabama) specializing in General Civil and Trial Practice in all Courts. Environmental, Real Estate, Probate, Corporate, Insurance, Personal Injury, Family and Finance Law. Admitted to the bar, 1996, Alabama, Mississippi, United States.
District Court, Northern and Middle Districts of Alabama, United States. District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of Mississippi and United States. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
Recipient: Excellent Oral Advocate. Outstanding Written Advocate, First Year Moot Court Competition. Honor Court Justice, 1994.
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, 1976-1977, 1992. Alabama Society of Certified Public Accountants's, 1992. Certified Public Accountant: Georgia, 1976-1977.
Alabama, 1992. Member: Alabama State Bar. The Mississippi Bar; American Bar Association. Seventeenth Judicial Circuit.
Bench and Bar.
Pruitt, Pruitt and Watkins, P.A. had as its predecessors the firm of George Miller, established in 1925, Miller and Pruitt established in 1933, and Pruitt and Pruitt established in 1961. The firm maintained a local general practice with emphasis on corporate, real estate, insurance defense and environmental law until 1990, at which time Ira D. Pruitt, Junior was admitted to the Bar in Tennessee and established an Of Counsel relationship with Harkavy, Shainberg, Kosten & Pinstein in Memphis, Tennessee. With this association, the firm began a regional environmental, corporate and real estate practice with particular emphasis on environmental law.
Member: Alabama State Bar. The Mississippi Bar; American Bar Association. Seventeenth Judicial Circuit.
Bench and Bar.