Biography

Attended Centre College, Danville Kentucky (1974-1976)
Attended British Studies Program, Oxford University, Oxford England (1978)
Western Kentucky University, B.A. (1979)
15 credit hours toward Masters in English at Western Kentucky University, Kentucky
Taught English at Allen County, Scottsville High School in Scottsville, Kentucky (1980-1983)
University of Kentucky College of Law, Lexington, Kentucky (J.D. 1986)
Bar Admissions: Kentucky (1986); U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Kentucky (2002)
Gess Mattingly & Atchison, PSC, Lexington, Kentucky (1986 to present); practice exclusively in domestic relations law; equity shareholder in the firm since 1998.
Chairperson of Family Law Section of Fayette County Bar Association (1995-1996)
Published article entitled “Relationship between UCCJA and PKPA Affecting Modification of Custody/Visitation Orders” (May-June 1995 Fayette County Bar Association BR News, pp. 22-26.)
CLE course speaker.
Appointed to the Parent’s Education Committee and the Workbook for Parent’s Education Committee. The Parent’s Education Clinic initiated as a pilot program in Fayette County and was subsequently used as a model for the entire state.vvv
Served on the committee for restructuring the Fayette County Circuit Court motion hour format.
Served on the committee recommending time-sharing guidelines to the Fayette Circuit Court.
Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers since 1997.
Member and past chairman of the Family Law section of the Fayette County Bar Association.
Member of the Family Law Section of the Kentucky and American Bar Associations.
Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, and past president of the Kentucky chapter.
Appointed Disciplinary Trial Commissioner of the Kentucky Bar Association by the Kentucky Supreme Court (1998)