Attorney to give Moultrie Tech graduation address June 19

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June 10, 2009

Staff Reports The Moultrie Observer Wed Jun 10, 2009, 11:06 PM EDT

MOULTRIE — Moultrie Technical College will hold its Winter-Spring 2009 commencement exercises at 6:30 p.m. June 19 at Withers Auditorium in Moultrie.

The ceremony will honor more than 300 allied health, business and computers, personal and public service, and technical and industrial program graduates in addition to more than 140 adult education (GED) program graduates from the college’s four-county service area of Colquitt, Tift, Turner and Worth.

MTC early childhood care and education instructor and 2008 Rick Perkins Instructor of the Year award winner Kathryn Kent will serve as the faculty marshal.

Robb Howell, a trial lawyer and a partner in the Howell & Parrott law firm in Moultrie, will be the guest speaker at the event.

Howell is a member of the State Bar of Georgia, the Moultrie Bar Association, the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association and the American Association for Justice. His firm handles a wide variety of plaintiff cases in state and federal courts.

Before returning to his hometown of Moultrie, Howell practiced law in Atlanta with the firms of Troutman Sanders LLP and Lord, Bissell & Brook.

He received his undergraduate degree, summa cum laude, from Valdosta State University in 1994. While there, he was member of the school’s varsity tennis team and a founding member of the school’s mock trial team. He earned his law degree, cum laude, from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1998.

Howell is an active member of the Colquitt County community. He is chairman of the Board of Directors of the Serenity House, a member of the Board of Directors for the Moultrie Technical College Foundation, the Moultrie Housing Authority, the Boys and Girls Club of Colquitt County and Friends of Lemon-Aide, Inc. He has also served on the University of Georgia School of Law Board of Visitors and as past chairman of the Moultrie Downtown Development Authority.

He has served in several leadership roles in the First United Methodist Church and is a regular Sunday school teacher.

Howell was named as Georgia Super Lawyer-Rising Star by Atlanta Magazine in 2009 and was featured in the March/April edition of South Georgia Business magazine. He and his wife, Lauren, were also selected to participate in the Leadership Georgia class of 2006.

For more information on the MTC graduation event, call (229) 891-7000.

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