George Walker

Profile Updated: August 29, 2021
Where are you living now? Fairhope, AL USA
Spouse/Partner: Carolyn
Children: Michael (1978) married Susan Burns in 2007; they are the parents of Mary Knox Walker, born October 22, More…2009; Michael graduated from the University of Virginia in 2001 and Washington and Lee School of Law in 2004, and is now practicing law with the Bradley Arant Boult Cummings firm in Birmingham.

Mary Kathryn Walker Avery(1982) married Alexander Avery in 2016 and they have two sons, Walker Avery (born 2017) and William Avery (born 2019), and a daughter, Julia Avery (born 2021). She got her B.A. and M.A. in Advertising and Public Relations from the University of Alabama. She works in marketing for Hancock Whitney Bank and lives with her husband and children in Mobile.

Robert (1988) graduated from Birmingham Southern College in 2010 and from Cumberland School of Law in 2013, and is now employed with the Armbrecht Jackson law firm in Mobile. He and his wife Kira married in 2014 and they live in Fairhope.
What have you been up to since you graduated?

I went to the University of Montevallo where I met my lovely wife and managed to fool enough professors to do well enough to get into the University of Alabama School of Law, where I was able to fool a whole new group of professors. Carolyn and I have been married since 1974, and we lived in Mobile from 1977 to 2017, when we moved across the bay to Fairhope. I practice law with the Hand Arendall Harrison Salelaw firm, where I have been since 1979. I am a trial lawyer focusing mostly on the defense of product liability cases, although I am also often involved in banking and other commercial litigation. In my spare time, I served on the Board of Trustees of the University of Montevallo from 1993 through 2011 (and as Chair from 2006 to 2011), as a Director of the Alabama Golf Association from 1992 through 2016 (and as President from 2011 thorough 2013), and as President of the Association of Defense Trial Attorneys in 2011-2012. This is all amazing to me since I am woefully devoid of any leadership skills.

Carolyn has been primarily involved with raising our three children; now that we have an empty nest, she has resumed trying to raise me. She had better luck with the children....

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Mike was a classmate at the UA School of Law and it was good to reconnect with him there after we attended different undergraduate schools.  We were both in the second section because we were in the last half of the alphabet and we were in most classes together our first two years.  He was a high quality classmate and friend who was always willing to discuss a case or commisserate about a horrible personal performance in the classroom in response to some professor's spirited use of the Socratic Method.  It seems that he did not change much between Norhtington and law school.  RIP counsellor.

 

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Alice: I am disappointed to see that you have not yet signed up for the Class of 70 Reunion in TTown on April 24-25. Emily has appointed me to bring everyone from south Alabama up with me. And I definitely want the entire Downs gang represented. Sign up and show up; I know we will all have fun and Walter Phillips has a first class thumb drive with every song you ever loved.

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Jan 13, 2020 at 2:20 PM

Skip: you are on my list to call and encourage to attend the 50th Reunion the weekend of April 24-25. I don't have a phone number for you, so I am sending this comment instead. I hope that you and Frances will be able to make it to Tuscaloosa for the reunion; Emily and her host committee are cooking up some good times to be had. On a side note, my older son attended law school at W&L, and I envy your and your son's experiences there. I hope that we will see you in April.

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My daughter-in-law Susan, my daughter Mary kathryn, and my son Michael.
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Mary Kathryn and my son Robert.
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Mary Kathryn and Carolyn.
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Mary Kathryn and me. Somehow, she gets in every photo.
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My grand-daughter Mary Knox is off to a good start.
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