CURRICULUM VITAE

OF

ALBEN N. (AL) HOPKINS

Mr. Hopkins was born in Ripley, Mississippi, Tippah County, on February 14, 1941.  He presently resides in Gulfport, Mississippi.  He is married to the former Ruth Boyd of Walnut, Mississippi, and they have two children, Ashley Anne and Norris.  Ashley is a graduate of St. John's High School, the University of Mississippi, and the University of Mississippi School of Law. Norris is a graduate of St. John's High School, the University of Mississippi, and Mississippi College School of Law.  Norris is married to Jodie Gillespie of Hattiesburg, Mississippi.

EDUCATION:

Mr. Hopkins graduated from Walnut Center High School in 1959.  He was a four-year varsity letterman in basketball and baseball.  He was president of his class as a freshman, junior, and senior; Mr. Walnut High School; and on the Honor Roll.  He was chosen as an FFA Star Farmer and attained the rank of Eagle Scout with Silver Palm.
Mr. Hopkins graduated from Delta State College in 1963 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in History and English.  At Delta State he was a three-year varsity letterman in basketball, member of the "M" Club, Debate Team, and Inter-Fraternity Council.  He served as president of his social fraternity, Delta Alpha Omega and is a member of Kappa Alpha Order (chosen to the National Council of Honor).  He is a member of Omicron Delta Kappa, Pi Gamma Mu and Pi Kappa Delta Honor Societies.  Mr. Hopkins served as president of the Campus Senate, vice-president (1961-62) and president (1962-63) of the Student Government Association.  He also served as Executive Councilman (1961-1962) and President (1962-1963) of the Mississippi Inter-Collegiate Council.  He was chosen Mr. Delta State College and listed in Who's Who in American Universities and Colleges. Mr. Hopkins graduated in 1965 from the University of Mississippi School of Law with the Degree of Juris Doctor.  At the University of Mississippi School of Law, he served as President of Law II, Chairman of the Legal Research Exchange, Vice-President of Phi Alpha Delta Legal Fraternity, Chairman of Law School Honor Council, and President of his graduating class.

He has earned additional credits for work at the University of Mississippi, Blue Mountain College, and William Carey College.  In 1985, he received a Bachelor of Arts Degree from William Carey College in Biblical Studies and has completed additional studies at Oxford University and Jerusalem, Israel.

In 1965, he began his legal practice in Jackson, Mississippi, with the law firm of Daniel, Coker and Horton.  In 1970, his practice was moved to Gulfport, Mississippi, where he has resided to present.  On July 11, 1977, Mr. Hopkins began his own firm which now comprises five lawyers, fourteen employees, and operates under the name of HOPKINS, BARVIÉ & HOPKINS, P.L.L.C.


PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND SOCIETIES:

Hinds County Bar Association 1965-70

Harrison County Bar Association 1970-present

Mississippi Bar Association 1965-present
Judicial Selection Committee 1978-79
Judicial Evaluation Committee 1993-94

American Bar Association 1965-present
Member Trial, Product Liability section

Federal Bar Association 1971-present (V.P. 1982-84)

Bar Association of the Fifth Federal Circuit 1987-present
Agenda Committee, Fifth Circuit Judicial Conference 1989
Transportation Committee, Fifth Circuit Judicial Conference 1996-97

The Defense Research and Trial Lawyers Association
1972-present
Area Chairman 1977-79
Recognized by the National College of Advocacy as an Advocate

Mississippi Defense Lawyers Association
Publications Committee 1974
Judicial Administration and Liaison Committee 1980

Federation of Insurance & Corporate Counsel 1974-2005

Fellow Mississippi Bar Foundation 1976-present

Lamar Order 1984-present

International Association of Defense Counsel

Southeastern Admiralty Association (Port Attorney 1983-1985)

Transportation Lawyers Association

The Association of the United States Army (1985-present)


HONORS AND ORGANIZATIONS:

In 1967, Mr. Hopkins served as President of the Delta State University Greater Jackson Area Association.  He was a participant in the "Program for Excellence" at Delta State University.  Mr. Hopkins served as President of Delta State Alumni Association for the State of Mississippi  (1968-1969), and on the Board of Directors of Delta State University Foundation (1968-1988 and 1991-1995).  He served as President of the Foundation in 1995.  In 1991, he was selected as Alumnus of the Year at Delta State University for his leadership, achievement and devotion to his chosen field of endeavor, and to Delta State University.

In 1970, he was chosen to appear in "Outstanding Young Men of America" and
listed in "Who's Who in the South and Southwest".

In 1971, he was elected to the Executive Counsel of Inter-Alumni Council for
Institute of Higher Learning for the State of Mississippi and served as
Vice-Chairman (1971-1972) and Chairman (1972-1973).

In 1990, Kappa Alpha Order, Delta Beta Chapter, dedicated "Old South 1990"
to Mr. Hopkins.

In 1995, he was chosen King D'Iberville, King of All Mardi Gras on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi, Gulf Coast Carnival Association.  He serves on the Board of Directors for the Gulf Coast Carnival Association.

He is a 32nd Degree Mason and a member of the York Rite, and Shrine.  Mr. Hopkins is a member of the Retired Officers Association; Reserve Officers Association; Gulf Coast Chamber of Commerce; The American Legion; Gulfport Yacht Club; Windance Country Club, and Gulfport Rotary Club.


COMMUNITY, STATE AND NATIONAL INVOLVEMENT:

Mr. Hopkins has also served and is serving in the following capacities:

Board of Directors, Vice-President, Gulfport Jaycees (1971-1973)

Board of Directors, USO (1974-1975)

Board of Directors, Gulf Pines Girl Scout Council (1974-present); awarded the Thanks Badge by the Girl Scouts of America (1982); awarded Lifetime Membership Status by the Girl Scouts of America; Golden Ruler Award; and President's Cabinet (1990-present)

Board of Directors, United Way, Harrison County (1980-1982)

American Heart Association, Mississippi Affiliate, Board of Directors, Chairman of Board (1985-1986); Assistant State Heart Chairman (1983); State Heart Fund Chairman (1984); Planned Giving Committee Chairman (1980-1984); District Director; awarded the Gold Award of American Heart Association (1981); awarded the Silver Award for Distinguished Service (1986)

Legislative Committee, Mississippi National Guard Association

Development Board, William Carey College (1985-1989)

Foundation Board, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary (1987-2003)

Life Member, Mississippi Historical Society

Board of Deacons, Finance Committee, Chairman of Policy Committee, Sunday School Teacher, First Baptist Church of Gulfport, Mississippi

Board of Directors and President of the Metropolitan Dinner Club (1988-1989)

Board of Directors, 31st Infantry "Dixie" Division Society (1992-1996) (Life
Member)

31st Infantry "Dixie" Division Association, Inc. - National President (1997-1998)
1st Vice President (1996-1997)

Board of Directors, Mississippi Committee for the Prevention of Child Abuse
(1993-1999)

Charter Member, Armed Forces Museum Foundation, Inc.

Harrison County Tourism Commission Commissioner(1994-present)
President (2002-2005) Chairman, Gulf Coast Business Council Tourism Committee, Air Service
Subcommittee (2007-present)

Governor Barbour's Commission on Recovery, Rebuilding and Renewal
Member, Committee on Hospitality Industry/Recreation (2005-present)

Coastal Conservation Association (1995-present)

"Who's Who" in Coast Business (1995)

Marquis "Who's Who in America" (1996-present)

Gulf Coast Carnival Association, King d'Iberville (1995)

District Commissioner, Spanish Trail District, Boy Scouts of America (1997-1998)

Executive Council, Spanish Trail District, Boy Scouts of America (1998-present)

Mississippi Coast Crime Commission (1997-present)

Life Member. National Rifle Association

Sponsor, Ducks Unlimited

Harrison County Republican Executive Committee (1972-present)

United Republican Fund

Wildlife Mississippi, Charter Member (1998-present)

Sponsoring Association Member, National Association of Charter Boat Operators (1995-2000)

DAR President General's Advisory Board (1998-2000)

Coast Centurion Association (Gulf Coast Chamber)


LECTURES AND INSTRUCTION:

Mr. Hopkins served on the faculty of the Jackson School of Law, Jackson, Mississippi, as an instructor from 1965 to 1969.  He instructed at the University of Mississippi Medical Center on Legal Aspects Of Emergency
Medicine 1969.

Lectures and papers include:

Federation of Insurance Counsel, Acapulco, Mexico, 1975, "Executive Officer Suits Under the Combination Casualty Policy"

Mississippi Trial Lawyers, Mississippi Workmen's Compensation Seminars I, Jackson, Mississippi, Mid-Winter Meeting 1976, "Heart Cases - Procedures and Practice"; Mississippi Trial Lawyers Association Admiralty Seminar, Biloxi, Mississippi 1989, "The Defense of LHWCA Claims"

Mississippi Institute of Continuing Legal Education, Biloxi and Tupelo 1977, "Medical Proof in Heart Cases"

Workmen's Compensation Seminars II, Jackson, Mississippi, 1980, "Heart and Stroke Cases (A How to do it Segment)"

Mississippi State Bar, Seminar on New Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure, Biloxi and Jackson 1981, "Motion Practice, Judgment Short of Trial"

Louisiana Bar Association, Biloxi, Mississippi, 1982, "Comparative Negligence in Mississippi"

Tulane University, Seminar on Longshore and Occupational Disease Acts; Substantive Issues, Diagnostic Techniques and Future Legislation, 1984; "Problems with Medical Proof in Back and Heart Cases"

Gulf Coast Law Institute, Medical Issues in Workmen's Compensation and Longshore Cases, Biloxi 1985

Mississippi Trial Lawyers Association Admiralty Seminar, "The Defense of LHWCA Claims", Biloxi 1989

National Business Institute, Inc., Workers' Compensation in Mississippi "Issues and Answers", The Defense Prospective, Biloxi, 1990, 1991

Workers' Compensation Practice & Procedure Seminar, Mississippi College School of Law, Jackson, Mississippi, November, 1990

Mississippi Trial Lawyers Seminar, "Effective Cross Examination", Hattiesburg, Mississippi April, 1992

American College of International Physicians, "What Legal Courses of Action Can International Medical Graduates Pursue with Discrimination in Licensure?", New Orleans, Louisiana, July, 1993.

National Business Institute, Inc., Advanced Workers' Compensation in Mississippi "Occupational Stress:  The Two Types of Compensable Injury", Gulfport, Mississippi, September, 1993.

National Business Institute, Inc., Advanced Workers' Compensation in Mississippi "Vocational Rehabilitation:  A Choice of Two Options", Gulfport, Mississippi, September, 1993.

National Business Institute, Inc., "Insurance Coverage Law in Mississippi", Biloxi, Mississippi, April, 1994.

Professional Education Systems, Inc., "Orthopedics for Lawyers", Gulfport, Mississippi, July, 1995.

Coregis MSBA Schools Seminar, "Suit Posturing, The New Corporal Punishment Law, and a General Legislature Update", Grenada, Mississippi and Hattiesburg, Mississippi, March, 1998

Mississippi Association of Housing & Redevelopment Officials, "Employment Practices: Hiring and Firing - Why Worry?", Philadelphia, Mississippi, January, 1999.


AUTHOR:

"Heart Attacks in Workmen's Compensation - The Mississippi Experience," 44 Miss. L.J. 226 (1973)

"Executive Officer Suits Under the Combination Casualty Policy," 25 Federation of Ins. Counsel Journal, 169 (1975)

MILITARY:

Mr. Hopkins is a Major General (Ret.).  General Hopkins entered military service in 1965 as an enlisted man in the 31st Infantry Division.  In 1970, he received a direct commission to Captain.  He is a graduate of the Judges Advocate General's Career Course and General Staff School of the United States Army, University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, Virginia.  He served as Staff Judge Advocate for Mississippi Emergency Operations Headquarters; Command and Control Headquarters; Det. 1 STARC and Special Staff Judge Advocate to the Adjutant General of the State of Mississippi.  General Hopkins served the last four years of his service as the Assistant Adjutant General of the State of Mississippi.  In the position of Assistant Adjutant General (1992-1996), General Hopkins served in the following capacities:
Chairman, Mississippi National Guard Total Quality Management (TQM) Executive Council

Co-Chairman, Army and Air Total Quality Management (TQM) Council

Chairman, Morale Support Fund Board

Chairman, Camp Shelby Timber Fund

Chairman, Environmental Quality Control Committee

Chairman, Recycle Program

President, General Academic Board for MSARNG Military Academy

Director, USARNG Drug Enforcement Programs

Chairman, State Morale, Welfare & Recreation Council

Chairman, Senior Service School Selection Board

Chairman, Selective Retention Board


General Hopkins has received the following awards:

Federal Awards:

The Legion of Merit
Meritorious Service Medal (One Oak Leaf Cluster)
Army Commendation Medal
Army Achievement Medal
Army Reserve Component Achievement Medal (Four Oak Leaf Cluster)
National Defense Service Medal (One Bronze Star)
Armed Forces Reserve Medal (with 10 year device)
Army Service Ribbon
Presidential Certificate for Meritorious Service
Tennessee National Guard Distinguished Service Medal

State Awards:

Mississippi Magnolia Cross
Mississippi Magnolia Medal
Mississippi Commendation Medal
Mississippi War Medal
Mississippi Emergency Service Medal (Three Oak Leaf Cluster)
Mississippi Service School Medal
Mississippi Longevity Medal (One Silver Oak Leaf Cluster)

General Hopkins was one of the drafters of the Mississippi State Code Revisions of the Code of Military Justice and the State Military Code.  He served on the Reserve Guard Judge Advocate Legal Assistant Advisory Committee, Department of Army, the Judge Advocate General's School.

General Hopkins served as Commander of Camp Shelby, Mississippi, The Nation's Largest National Guard and Reserve Training Site during Summer Maneuvers in 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1995.

JUDGESHIP:

General Hopkins is serving a second six (6) year term as Chief Judge of the Court of Military Appeals for the Mississippi Military Department, State of Mississippi. His first term was October 6, 1996, through October 6, 2002, with reappointment on April 7, 2004, for another six (6) year term.


BUSINESS:

He is the President of ANH Enterprises, Inc., and Muddy River Farms, LLC. ANH Enterprises is a farming, ranching and land development company doing business in North and South Mississippi.

He also serves as a Director of First Bank and Trust of Mississippi, with offices in Winona and Biloxi, Mississippi.

PROFESSIONAL STANDING:

Mr. Hopkins was licensed to practice law in 1965.  He is admitted to practice before the following courts:

Mississippi State Courts (1965)

Supreme Court of the State of Mississippi (1965)

United States District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi (1966)

United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi (1970)

United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (1972)

United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit (1981)

Supreme Court of the United States of America (1972)

United States Court of Military Appeals (1986)

He is the senior partner of the law firm of HOPKINS, BARVIÉ & HOPKINS, P.L.L.C., Gulfport, Mississippi, and is listed in Who's Who in American Law.
He is an "A-V" rated attorney in Martindale Hubbell Law Directory.

HOBBIES:

Mr. Hopkins is an avid outdoorsman enjoying hunting, fishing and boating. He was the 1996 Bluewater King Fisherman of the Mississippi Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo and winner of the Billy Meadows Memorial Trophy of the Mississippi Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo. He is also a certified scuba diver. Mr. Hopkins also includes beekeeping as part of his forestry, farming and ranching business.