Name: Tommy Spina
Item: Tommy Spina
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Tommy Spina is a criminal defense lawyer in private practice in Birmingham, Alabama. His practice is limited to criminal defense on a Federal, State and Municipal Court level. His practice focuses on representation of criminal defendants at all stages of criminal proceedings including pre-indictment, trial, appeal and post-conviction.

Associations

● Former Municipal Court Judge, City of Vestavia Hills (2002 - 2016)
● President of the Alabama Municipal Judge‘s Association (2006)
● Advisory Committee on Municipal Courts appointed by the Supreme Court of Alabama (2007-2008)
● Member and former President of the Birmingham Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (2001-2002)
● Alabama Criminal Defense Lawyers Association
● Alabama Bar Association (1978 - present)
● Birmingham Bar Association (1978 - present)
● American Board of Criminal Lawyers - President (2009), President-Elect (2007-2008), Treasurer (2005-2006) and previously served as Vice-President and on Board of Governors
● Criminal Procedures Committee and the Public Relations Committee (1997) with the Birmingham Bar Association
● Roderick Beddow, Sr. Lifetime Achievement Award (2016)
● Chairman of Criminal Procedures Committee, Birmingham Bar Association, 1998
● Merit Selection Committee for the reappointment of Magistrate Judge Robert R. Armstrong, Jr. (Summer 2006.)
● Lobbyist, City of Las Vegas
● Drug Nuisance Abatement Task Force
● Martindale-Hubbell, 2021 AV, Preeminent rating - the highest honor given

He has taught Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure at the Birmingham School of Law (2000, 2001, 2008, 2012) and has served as Special Circuit Court Judge by appointment of the State of Alabama Supreme Court on a number of occasions in Jefferson County. He was on the Committee that studied and implemented the current Drug Court Program presently in operation in Jefferson County District Court and presided over by Judge Shanta Owens (1984).

In addition to Alabama, he has represented clients in Federal and State cases in Arizona, Texas, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Colorado and Hawaii. He is admitted to practice in the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Eleventh and Fifth Circuits.

Television Host, 2012 - present, Our Issues Birmingham, community affairs program.
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Education

● John Carroll High School, Class of 1969

● Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
Bachelor of Science Degree, Business Administration, 1974

● Samford University, Cumberland School of Law, Birmingham, Alabama
Juris Doctorate Degree, May, 1978

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