President - Elect Profile, 0316 ALBJ, 77 The Alabama Lawyer 90 (2016)
| Author | Augusta S. Dowd, J. |
| Position | Vol. 77 2 Pg. 90 |
Augusta S. Dowd, J.
Pursuant to the Alabama state Bar’s Rules Governing the Election of President- elect, the following biographical sketch is provided of Augusta S. Dowd. Dowd was the sole qualifying candidate for the position of president-elect of the Alabama state Bar for the 2016-17 term and she will assume the presidency in 2017.
Born and raised in Birmingham, Augusta graduated from the University of the South (Sewanee) and Vanderbilt University School of Law, where she served as articles editor for the Vanderbilt Law Review. After graduating from law school in 1982, Augusta clerked for the Honorable Seybourne H. Lynne of the Northern District of Alabama. Augusta began her law practice in 1983 in Birmingham with Lange, Simpson, Robinson & Somerville, where she practiced until her third child was born in 1990. Augusta spent most of the 1990s at home with her children before returning to the practice of law in 2000 to join the firm that eventually restructured in 2003 to become White Arnold & Dowd PC. She became managing lawyer when the firm restructured, and she continues to hold that position.
With more than 25 years’ experience as a trial lawyer, primarily in civil and complex litigation and white-collar criminal defense, Augusta practices in federal and state courts, as well as in administrative and regulatory proceedings and arbitrations. She represents both plaintiffs and defendants in a broad spectrum of cases including business, civil, class action, complex litigation, personal injury, mass tort, pharmaceutical, environmental tort and whistleblower actions. Augusta has extensive experience representing defendants in white-collar crime and criminal environmental matters. She also handles executive severance and compensation matters.
Committed to our state bar’s ideal that “lawyers render service,” Augusta has been meaningfully involved in bar activities on both the local and state level. She was a member of the Birmingham Bar Association’s (“BBA”) Executive Committee (2004-2007) and Diversity Task Force (2006-2007) and is a Fellow of the Birmingham Bar Foundation. Augusta also served on one of the BBA’s grievance panels and as one of the co-chairs of the BBA’s Grievance Committee in 2009-2010. She created the original course template for and led the inaugural class of the BBA’s Future...
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