FLS Nominating Committee Posts Slate

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Chair-Elect

one position, one-y ear term

Candace B. Peeples

Birmingham, AL

Candace B. (Candi)

Peeples is par tner

and owner in the Bir-

mingham, Alabama,

law rm Peeples

Law, a boutique- styled practice solely

focused in the traditio nal areas of

family law and assiste d reproductive

technology.

Candi, a former chair of t he Ala-

bama State Bar Family Law Sec tion,

was honored to be chos en by her

Section peer s as the 2013 Attorney of

the Year.

Candi has been ac tively involved

in the ABA Family Law Sec tion since

joining in 2000. Sh e has served on the

Section’s governing C ouncil (2011–

present), Continuing L egal Education

Committee (20 09–2018), and Sponsor-

ship and Fundraising Comm ittee. She

is a former chair of the Alimo ny Com-

mittee, ser ved as the Section Secre-

tary (2018-2019), and currently se rves

as the Section Vi ce Chair.

In 2014, Candi was honored to

receive the 2014–2015 Chair’s Award.

She is a fellow in the Alabama C hap-

ter of the AAML an d the IAFL. She is

also certied by t he National Board

of Trial Advocacy as a Family Law Trial

Advocate. Candi is co nsistently chosen

as one of Birmingham Alaba ma’s Top

Attorneys in the area of Family L aw

by Birmingham Magazine, and she

was also recognized by the s tatewide

publication, Alabama S uper Lawyer

Magazine. Peeples is a fre quent CLE

presenter for bot h local and national

organizations.

FLS Nominating Committee Posts Slate

Section memb ers will elect Section of Family Law O fcers and Council Member s for the 2020–2021 bar year at the 2020 ABA

Family Law Section’s An nual Business Meeting in Chicago, IL . To be eligible to vote, an individual must be regis tered for the

meeting and be a non student member of the Sectio n whose good standing can be cer tied by ofcial Associatio n records for

thirty days prio r to the day of the voting. Here are the Ofce r and Council nominees:

Vice-Chair

one position, one-year term

Thad F. Woody

Atlanta, GA

Thad Woody is the

Executive Partn er

with the law rm of

Kessler & Solomiany,

LLC in Atlanta, where

his practice focus es exclusively on

family law matters . He also serves as

an adjunct profes sor at Georgia State

College of Law, where he te aches

family law and domesti c litigation.

Thad has exten sive experience repre-

senting clients in mat ters relating to

divorce, child suppor t, child custody,

prenuptial agreeme nts, legitimation,

and paternity ac tions. He has success-

fully represented a va riety of clients,

including notable entertain ers,

athletes, and high-prole executives.

Thad is trained as a Guard ian ad Litem

and has perform ed pro bono services

on behalf of the Atlanta Law yers

Foundation.

Thad has been an ac tive member

of the American Bar A ssociation Sec-

tion of Family Law for over a dec ade

and currently ser ves as the Secretary

of the Section. Ad ditionally, he served

for three years as the Co -Chair of the

Continuing Legal Educa tion Com-

mittee, where he wa s responsible

for planning legal edu cation oppor-

tunities for member s of the Section

throughout the countr y. Thad has

served on variou s Section Committees,

including Strategic Planning, Nominat-

ing and Finance. He also t akes a spe-

cial interest in expan ding the reach of

the Section and ha s worked as both a

Chair of the Diversit y Committee and

the Fellowship program to f urther

promote diversit y and inclusion initia-

tives within the Sec tion.

Thad received a Bache lor of Arts

degree from the Unive rsity of North

Carolina at Chapel Hill, wh ere he

also served as S enior Class President.

He earned his Juris Do ctor from the

University of No rth Carolina School of

Law. Following law school, h e served

as a law clerk to Chief Justi ce Sarah E.

Parker of the North Caro lina Supreme

Court. He is a me mber of the United

States Supreme Court, Georgia State

Bar, North Carolina State Bar, and the

Supreme Court o f the Eastern Band

of Cherokee Indians and is f requently

listed as both a Sup er Lawyer by

Atlanta Magazine and a Legal Elite by

Georgia Trend.

Secretary

one position, one-year term

Brian M. Karpf

Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Brian M. Karpf is a

partner with Young,

Berman, Karpf, and

Gonzalez, P.A., in

Miami and Fort

Lauderdale, Florid a. He is a Florida Bar

Board-Cer tied Family Law Attorney

and Florida Supreme Co urt Certied

Family Mediator. Brian focuses his law

practice in the areas of fa mily and

divorce law, appeals, me diation, pre-

nuptial and postnup tial agreements,

surrogacy and assisted reproductive

technology mat ters, mediation, and

Hague Convention inter national child-

abduction ca ses.

Brian has served o n the Council of

the ABA Family Law Sec tion since 2010

and has chaired and /or served on

nearly every subs tantive Section

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