James E. Rotch

Administrative Partner, Bradley Arant Rose and White

Ten Acorns Farm (horses & cattle)

• Owner & operator

The White Elephant Galleries, Inc. (antique mall)

• Owner

Laurel Creek Development Company, L.L.C. (real estate development)

• Part owner

United States Army Reserve

• Active duty 1972
• Armor officer, Fort Knox, Kentucky
• Honorable discharge as Captain 1978

Honorable C. W. Allgood, U.S. District Judge, Northern District of Alabama

• Law Clerk 1971-1972

Education:
University of Virginia Law School

• 1969-1971, J.D.
• Phi Alpha Delta
• Moot Court
• Research Assistant to Professor Charles Whitebread

Auburn University Graduate School of Economics

• 1968-1969
• Completed all course work (no thesis) for M.S. in Economics

Auburn University

• 1963-1967, B.S. in Economics
• Pi Kappa Alpha, Treasurer
• Omicron Delta Kappa
• All Campus Fund Drive, Chairman, 1966
• Student Senator
• Spades (Ten Outstanding Senior Men)
• Who’s Who in American Colleges & Universities
• Office of Institutional Analysis, Fellowship

Memberships, Civic Activities, Etc.:
A+ Coalition for Better Education

• Member

Advisory Committee of Bioelastics Research, Ltd.

• Member

Advisory Committee of the Birmingham Museum of Art

• Past President

Alabama Sports Foundation

• Board of Directors (former member)

Alabama State Bar

• Member

Alabama State Bar International Law Section

• Membership Chairman (former)

American Bar Association

• Member

Auburn Alumni Association

• Member

Auburn College of Liberal Arts Advisory Council

• Past Vice Chairman

Auburn University Bar Association

• Advisory Board, 1992-1994
• Finance and Pre-Law Symposium Committees

Auburn University Liberal Arts Dean’s Council

• Former Member

Best Lawyers in America

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Birmingham Area Chamber of Commerce

• Board of Trustees

Birmingham Bar Association

• Member

Birmingham Committee for Olympic Soccer

• Board of Directors (former member)

Birmingham Venture Club

• Board of Directors, 1990
• Vice-President, 1991
• President, 1992 to 1993

Boy Scouts of America

• Chairman, Mountain Brook SME Campaign, 1989-1990
• Chairman, Vulcan District SME Campaign, 1991
• Vulcan District Steering Committee, 1992-1997

Canterbury United Methodist Church

• Administrative Board, 1991-1993
• Sunday School Class President, 1988

County Club of Birmingham

• Member

Entrepreneurial Center

• Board Member

Governor’s Biotechnology Task Force

• Member, 1993

International Bar Association

• Member

The Jockey Club

• Member

Kiwanis Club of Birmingham

• Secretary, 1998-1999
• Past Vice Chairman of Membership Committee
• Chairman of New Club Development Committee, 1992

Leadership Alabama

• Class of 1997-1998
• Board of Directors

Leadership Birmingham

• Class of 1991-1992
• Council Member 1992-1995

Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers

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Mountain Brook Elementary School P.T.A.

• Past Vice President

Newcomen Society

• Member

Operation New Birmingham

• Board Member (former)
• Partnership for Shared Growth, Co-chair
• Community Affairs Committee (former co-chair)
• Author, The Birmingham Pledge
• Chairman, The Birmingham Pledge Advisory Board
• Member, The Birmingham Pledge Task Force

The Summit Club

• Charter Member

University of Virginia Alumni Association

• Member

Who’s Who in America

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Who’s Who in American Law

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