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Ph.D. in Economics, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, December 1995.

M.A. in Economics, Texas Christian University, Ft. Worth, Texas, May 1994.

Associate Professor of Economics, Kelley College of Business, Hardin-Simmons University, August 1998 to present.

Assistant Professor of Economics, College of Business, Northeastern State University, August 1996 to July 1998.

• lost earnings and benefits
• personal consumption
• lost household services
• estimation of the present value of medical care costs

for cases concerned with:

• personal injury
• wrongful death
• wrongful birth
• medical malpractice
• wrongful termination
• client loss due to breach of non-compete agreement

since 1998.  I have a more comprehensive curriculum vitae and if you will contact me, I will happily supply you with a detailed listing of the cases where I have been retained as an expert witness.

My training in urban and regional economics and public finance allows me to understand local and regional economic issues. As a multifamily real estate investor and former Abilene city councilman I have a applied, first-hand perspective with public projects and regional economic issues.

“Shiny Schools: Do New Programs and New Schools Solve the Dropout Problem”, Working paper accepted for presentation at the Federation of Business Disciplines meetings, Dallas, TX, Spring 2010.

"The Efficiency of Economic Development Expenditures: Returns to Primary Job Creation Under the Stewardship of the Development Corporation of Abilene" Working paper presented at the Southern Economics Association, Washington, DC Fall 2008.  

“Worker Displacement, Job Search, and Reemployment: A Temporal Analysis of Regional Structural Conditions,” Review of Regional Studies, Vol. 25, No. 3, Winter 1997.

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