Alabama State Bar President, Gibson Vance, will be coming to speak with our local members. We will apply for 1 hr MCLE credit. Registration is required by 5:00 pm on October 13. No refunds or credits can be given after this time.
Mr. Vance, a principal at the Beasley Allen Law Firm, is the 147th President of the Alabama State Bar. Gibson’s entire 28-year law career has been spent representing individuals who have been injured or mistreated. Advocating for and helping others through his work is deeply rooted in his upbringing. Born in Troy, Alabama, and raised by his mother, who was a schoolteacher, Gibson worked his way through Troy State University and Thomas Goode Jones School of Law. While attending law school at night, he worked for a law firm full-time as a law clerk during the day. While attending Jones, he was elected Student Bar President.
For the last 20 years, he has been a partner at Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis and Miles, PC. Gibson and has had the opportunity to handle cases throughout the state. He continues to support Troy University as president pro tempore of the school’s board of trustees. Gibson has served in many leadership capacities at the Alabama State Bar, most recently as Vice President from 2020-2021. He also served as a Bar Commissioner representing the 15th Judicial Circuit and chaired and been a member of numerous committees and task forces, including the Alabama Lawyers Care Task Force and the Elections, Ethics and Government Relations Committee.
In addition to his service with the Alabama State Bar, Gibson has been active in bar activities at the local and national levels. He has served as President of the Montgomery County Bar Young Lawyers Division, the Montgomery County Bar Association, the Alabama Civil Justice Foundation, the Alabama Association for Justice, the Southern Trial Lawyers Association and the American Association for Justice.