George M. Walker

 

Board chairman and Mobile attorney George M. Walker received his bachelor of arts degree from the University of Montevallo in 1974, with a double major in history and political science. 

At Montevallo, he was a member of the Meisters Social Club and was later a charter member of the Theta Beta Chapter of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. He was a four-year letterman for the Montevallo golf team and served as team captain during the 1974 season. He earned All-Conference honors in the Southern States Conference in both 1973 and 1974, and he won the 1973 NAIA District 27 Championship. That same year, he became the first UM golfer to participate in the NAIA National Championship.

After graduating from Montevallo, Walker earned his J.D. degree from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1977.  There he served as associate editor of the Alabama Law Review and was a member of the Bench and Bar honor society and the Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity. 

He began his legal career in Mobile as a law clerk for United States District Judge William Brevard Hand, for whom he worked for two years. In 1979, he joined the Hand Arendall law firm, with whom he still practices today. Walker is a civil trial lawyer who specializes in the defense of products liability, professional liability and banking practices lawsuits. He has been recognized by the publications of both The Best Lawyers in America and The Superlawyers. He is a member of the Association of Defense Trial Lawyers (for which he serves as secretary), the Defense Research Institute, the Alabama Defense Lawyers Association, the American Bar Association, the Alabama and Florida State Bar Associations and the Mobile County Bar Association.

George married his college sweetheart, Carolyn Sewell (UM class of 1973), in June of 1974, and they are the proud parents of three children. Their older son Michael and his wife Susan live in Birmingham, where he is a lawyer with the Bradley, Arant, Rose and White firm, and she works as a recovery room nurse at Brookwood Hospital. Their daughter Mary Kathryn is the marketing and communications specialist for the American Cancer Society in its Mobile office. Their younger son Robert is a student at Birmingham-Southern College, majoring in history. 

When not focusing on legal matters or higher education, Walker serves as a director of and as treasurer for the Alabama Golf Association.