PROFESSIONAL

• Concentration in real estate law, land use planning and real estate finance law, with a dual emphasis in commercial transactions and residential real estate development, sales and purchases.
• Concentration in eminent domain actions representing municipalities and individual property owners on public roadway and utility projects.
• Concentration in business transactions for small to medium-sized businesses.
• Admitted to practice before the Indiana state courts and the United States District Court for the Northern and Southern Districts of Indiana.

REPRESENTATIVE TRANSACTIONS

• Representation of real estate development clients before local engineering, surveying, traffic, utility and storm water governmental departments.
• Over twenty years of experience in zoning laws, approvals and appeals in Fort Wayne and northeast Indiana, including appearances before planning commissions and boards of zoning appeals.
• Representation of businesses and individuals with real estate acquisitions, sales, leasing and construction matters.
• Zoning and development counsel for Canyon Cliffs, a 22 lot residential development, northwest Allen County.
• Zoning and development counsel for Inverness Center, a 120-acre multi-use development, southwest Fort Wayne.
• Zoning and development counsel for Vera Bradley Industrial Park, southwest Allen County.
• Zoning and development counsel for Elliott Industrial Park, northwest Fort Wayne.
• Zoning and development counsel for St. Joe Place, a privately owned and operated student housing complex, northeast Fort Wayne.
• Zoning and development counsel for Iron Dynamics facility in Butler, Indiana.
• Zoning and development counsel for Oxford Industrial Park, a 60-acre development, east Allen County.
• Acted as lender counsel for national life insurance company in real estate investment transactions for State of Indiana.
• Represented municipal entities and private property owners in condemnation and eminent domain issues and litigation.

PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT

• Member, Allen County Bar Association
• Member, Indiana State Bar Association (Member, Probate and Real Property Section and Land Use and Zoning Section)
• Member, American Bar Association (Section Member, Real Property, Probate and Trust Law)

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

• Vice President, Board of Directors, Fort Wayne Museum of Art (2010-current)
• President- Elect, Mad Anthonys Children`s Hope House, 2012 (Board Member, 2010-present)
• Recognized as an Everyday Star wtih the Parkview Foundation, Murosity Project
• Former Board Member, Cancer Services of Northeast Indiana
• Former Member, Advisory Board of Directors, Provena Sacred Heart Home (Assisted Living/Nursing Home), Avilla, IN
• Member, Bishop Dwenger High School Board of Education (2001-2008); Secretary (2001-2003), Vice President (2004); President (2006-2008)
• Member, City of Fort Wayne Downtown Blueprint Plus Steering Committee (2005)

EDUCATION

• University of Dayton School of Law (J.D., 1986)
• Wabash College (B.A., 1982)