C. Carter Clay partner

Carter was born in Mobile, Alabama on June 23, 1973, and graduated from St. Paul’s High School in Mobile in 1991. He attended college at The Citadel in Charleston, South Carolina on an athletic and academic scholarship. During his senior year, he was a member of The Citadel Honor Court and received the Marion S. Lewis athletic award. He graduated magna cum laude from The Citadel in the spring of 1995 with a B.S. in Business Administration. Upon graduating from college, Carter spent the next year working on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. as a Legislative Correspondent/Assistant to Congressman Tom Latham (Iowa-4 th District). In the fall of 1996, Carter entered Cumberland Law School at Samford University. He received his J.D. Degree from Cumberland in the spring of 1999. While at Cumberland, he received the Scholar of Merit Award in the subject of Evidence and achieved Dean’s List status multiple times. Carter was admitted to practice law in the State of Alabama upon passing the bar exam in the summer of 1999.