About Doug

Business Experience

• Co-founded and served as Chief Operating Officer and a Director of Beecher Carlson, a commercial insurance brokerage firm headquartered in Atlanta, (550+ Employees)
• Former General Counsel at Hobbs Group
• Former Chief Counsel for Georgia Pacific
• Former associate with Alston & Bird
• Law clerk for Judge Stanley F. Birch, 11th Circuit Court of Appeals

Education

• J.D., Emory School of Law, Woodruff Fellow, Order of the Coif
• White House Intern, 1988 - Reagan Administration
• Magna Cum Laude graduate of Dartmouth College, B.A. History
• Attended Austin Elementary and Marist School, DeKalb County, Georgia

Community and Political Involvement

• Board Member - Truancy Intervention Project,a non-profit based in Atlanta
• Member - Dunwoody United Methodist Church,Leisure Committee Chairman 2003 - 2005, coach of numerous youth sports teams
• Georgia Republican Foundation
• Sandy Springs Rotary - 2009 Membership Chair
• Served since 2007 on the Sandy Springs City Council
• COO Grass Roots Soccer