Christian & Small is pleased to announce that Sharon D. Stuart is nominated to run for President-Elect on the Birmingham Bar Association Board of Directors.
Sharon D. Stuart
The Birmingham Bar has been an important part of my career – providing wonderful service opportunities, as well as friendships developed through working with and learning from other lawyers.
Sharon Stuart, a founding partner of Christian & Small, handles complex commercial, insurance, and product liability litigation, and class actions. She is President and Claims Counsel of Attorneys Insurance Mutual of the South, Alabama’s bar-related malpractice insurer. Sharon graduated from Samford University and Cumberland School of Law. She served as Associate Editor of The Cumberland Law Review and was a member of the National Trial Advocacy Team. She served as the first law clerk for United States District Judge Sharon Lovelace Blackburn.
Professional Involvement
Sharon gives freely of her time and energy to strengthen our legal community through mentorship, education, fostering collegiality, and improving relations between the bench and bar. Her service includes:
• Birmingham Bar Association: Executive Committee (2019-2021); Court Liaison Committee; Chair, Long Range Planning Committee (drafted current BBA Long Range Plan); Chair, Civil Courts Procedures Committee (planned and hosted 2008 Judicial Selection Forum); Public Service Committee; Chair, Ethics Committee; Grievance Committee Young Lawyers Representative; Mentor, Young Lawyer Mentoring Program; Mentor, Women’s Section Mentoring Program; Member, Women’s Section; Presenter at numerous BBA CLE seminars.
• Birmingham Bar Foundation: Member, Board of Directors (2021-present); Supreme Court Oral Arguments Committee; 2022 Executive Director Search Committee.
• Alabama State Bar: Alabama State Bar Board of Legal Specialization & Certification Task Force; Bench & Bar Relations Task Force; Co-Chair, Insurance Benefits Committee; Strategic Planning Task Force; Legal Malpractice Insurance Task Force; Committee for Diversity of the Profession; Future of the Legal Profession Task Force; Lawyers Helping Lawyers Committee; Women Lawyers Section.
• Alabama Defense Lawyers Association: President (2017-2018); Secretary/Treasurer; Board Member; Chair, Amicus Curiae Committee; Women in the Law Committee.
• American Inns of Court: Master Bencher, Arthur D. Shores – Robert S. Vance American Inn of Court; Master Bencher and member of the formation committee, Judge James Edwin Horton American Inn of Court (Cumberland School of Law).
• Alabama Supreme Court Standing Committee on the Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure (2020-present).
• Bench and Bar Advisory Committee, U.S. District Court, N.D. Alabama (2015-2020).
Community Involvement
Sharon has worked to improve the greater community through service as a Trustee of Samford University, as Board Chair of M-Power Ministries, as a Board Member of the Literacy Council, as a member of the WBHM Radio Advisory Board, and as an Adult Sunday School Teacher at Dawson Memorial Baptist Church.
Honors and Recognition
Sharon has been honored as a legal and community leader by being named a Fellow of the Birmingham Bar Foundation, the American Bar Foundation, and the Alabama Law Foundation. Birmingham Business Journal featured her in 2017 “Women to Watch”. She is a graduate of Leadership Birmingham, Class of 2012.
About Christian & Small
Christian & Small LLP represents a diverse clientele throughout Alabama, the Southeast, and the nation with clients ranging from individuals and closely-held businesses to Fortune 500 corporations. By matching highly experienced lawyers with specific client needs, Christian & Small develops innovative, effective, and efficient solutions for clients. With offices in Birmingham, metro-Jackson, Mississippi, and the Alabama Gulf Coast, Christian & Small focuses on the areas of litigation and business, is a member of the International Society of Primerus Law Firms, and is the only Alabama-based member firm in the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity. Our corporate social responsibility program is focused on education, and diversity is one of Christian & Small’s core values.
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