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The Freedom Family
Our Freedom Family is the heart and soul of Freedom Court Reporting. Our wonderful team is what allows us to bring you our excellent statewide coverage, with years of experience behind each reporter and staff member, ensuring the level of accuracy and quality you need.
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Allison Miller
Birmingham
Alex Nelson
Prattville
Amanda Fitzgerald
Tupelo, MS
Amber Mitchell
Cullman/Huntsville/Florence/Decatur
Angie Smith McGalliard, CRR, RPR
Birmingham, Montgomery
Angie has been court reporting for fifteen years and graduated from the Prince Institute for Court Reporting in Montgomery, Alabama. She started her career in 1991 with Foshee & Turner. Since then, she has obtained her Registered Professional Reporter and Certified Real-time Reporter certifications through the National Court Reporting Association. She says " I joined Freedom Court Reporting in January of 2006. I'm very excited to be back with my friends and coworkers again, and growing our team back into the best reporting agency in Alabama once again! I love my career, and enjoy all the many opportunities it gives me to travel and learn and work on many exciting cases throughout the years." In addition to her career in court reporting, she owns a construction company with her husband and has two boys, Scott, 19, who attends Samford University and plays football for Samford, and Nick, 14, who is in junior high, and keeps them busy watching him play baseball and football as well.
Anne Miller, ACRA
Birmingham
Anne received an AAS from The University of Tennessee and from Gadsden State Junior College, graduating Magna Sum Laude. She began reporting in 1983. Anne and her husband, Kevin, live in the Trussville area and are the parents of three boys.
Audra Kirkland
Mobile
Belinda Brewster
Birmingham
Beth Word
Gadsden
Beth received her Associates Degree in Business in 1990, and then chose to go into court reporting. She graduated from Gadsden State Junior College and went to work for Foshee & Turner in 1993. She has been reporting now for thirteen years, all of which have been with Mickey Turner. She shares, "I am so blessed to work with Mike and Mickey Turner and the staff at Freedom."
Bridgette McLain
Birmingham
Caila Horton
Jasper
Caila attended The Court Reporting Institute of Birmingham. She has worked in the Freedom Court Reporting office in the departments of scheduling, accounts receivable, and Freedom points, and is well versed in the many aspects of court reporting. Caila says she enjoys her job and loves meeting new people every day.
Candi Lemmons
Jasper
Candi graduated from the Court Reporting Institute in Birmingham, Alabama.
She began her exciting career with Mike & Mickey in 2001 with Foshee &
Turner. She works primarily in the Central Alabama region, mainly the Jasper
area. Candi enjoys every day of her job because she says it's always a
different place and a different face. It's such a rewarding career to
realize how important you actually are in the legal system.
Carol Reyer
Birmingham
Carol attended court reporting school at Gadsden State Junior College and started court reporting in Birmingham in June of 1987. She has worked for three different firms since beginning of her career and says that she enjoys Freedom Court Reporting more than any of the others. We are certainly glad to have her on our team!
Carolyn Cleckler
Oxford/Birmingham
Christie Williams
Birmingham
Cindy Jenkins
Anniston/Atlanta
Cindy graduated from the Gadsden State Community College with a degree in Real-time Reporting in 2003 and has been working as a court reporter since then. She works in Northeast Alabama and Atlanta, Georgia, and surrounding cities. She enjoys working as a court reporter and says it gives her an opportunity to meet new people and gain useful knowledge on a daily basis.
Dawn Haun
Anniston/Atlanta
Debbie Steen
Birmingham, AL
Debbie oversees Freedom Court Reporting "Managed Accounts" and also Freedom Promotional
Products.
Debbie Vann
Dothan
Donna Armstrong
Birmingham
Dee Coker
Montgomery
Dena Wright Campbell
Birmingham
Denese Barnett
Wetumpka
Donna Winters
Birmingham, Tuscaloosa
Donna graduated in 1983 from Lippert's Court Reporting College. She says she enjoys being a court reporter "because every day is different, and I love meeting new people all the time."
Ed Kidd
Nashville, TN
Eugene Vernon
Birmingham
Francee Loyd
Cullman, North Alabama
Francee graduated Magna Cum Laude from Gadsden State College with an Associates Degree in Court Reporting in 1993. She has been an active free-lance reporter for 15 years.
Holly Bergeron
Florence
Howard Burns
Birmingham
Jacqueline Bufford Careathers, CSR, RPR
Huntsville
Jackie graduated Magna Cum Laude from Gadsden State College School of Court Reporting and began working in Fort Payne in 1982. She then moved to Huntsville and later formed Stamper & Bufford Reporting with Official Reporter Robert Stamper. In January of 2001 she joined Mike and Mickey and has continued to cover the north Alabama area. She is a member of the Alabama Court Reporters Association and the National Court Reporters Association.
Janet Arledge, C.S.R., R.P.R.
Birmingham
Jeremy Walker
Birmingham
Janet Hoffman
Houston, TX
Jennifer Gremmels
Birmingham
I received an Associates Degree in Realtime Reporting from Prince Institute in Montgomery, Alabama. I have been a reporter since 2009.
Jim Moody
Houston, TX
Julien Drogoul
Birmingham
Karen Davis
Birmingham
Karen Kelley
Sylacauga
Karol Whitehead
Tuscaloosa
Karol was born and raised in Northport, Alabama, located in Tuscaloosa County, where she still resides today. She began her court reporting career in 1990, after completing the Course of Study and practice prescribed for the Certified Court Reporter at Court Reporter Academy located in Birmingham, Alabama.
Katherine Lusk
Brandon, MS
Kelly Jackson, RPR
Birmingham
Kelly is a graduate of the Prince Institute and has been a court reporter since 1984.
Kelly Gray
Birmingham
Kerry Thames
Birmingham
Kim Duckett
Birmingham
Kim Duckett & Family
Kim grew up in Birmingham and graduated from Vestavia High School in 1992. She graduated from Gadsden State Court Reporting School in 1995, and has been reporting in Birmingham ever since. She lives in Moody, Alabama (since 1995) and is married with two girls. Kim is a big animal lover and a sucker for a stray. She shares, "My children are as bad as I am and we now have four cats and three dogs."
Kristie Bailey, RPR
Birmingham
Real time Court Reporter, dedicated to service.
Lacresia Barnett
Montgomery
Lane Butler
Birmingham
Lanier Cooper
Shalimar, FL
Laura Fant
Mobile
Laura attended Biggers Court Reporting School in Metairie, LA and graduated from Baton Rouge Court Reporting College in 1987."Freedom" is most definitely the best word to describe this firm! I have been a court reporter in the Mobile, AL, area for almost 20 years now and no one can beat this team. The integrity of the people and the willingness for us to work together to provide the most outstanding service and product court reporters can provide is our motto. I can trust them and they trust me; the best combination of a working relationship! All this put together provides reporters the "freedom" to be the best reporter they can be.
Leslie Hartsfield
Prattville
Liz Law Lankford
Gadsden
I am a Certified Court Reporter. I have been reporting since 1995. Graduated from Gadsden State Community College School of Court Reporting.
Liz Tucker
Nashville/Memphis
Lori Sizemore
Birmingham/North Alabama
"To love what we ought to and
to hate what we ought to has the greatest bearing
on excellence of character."
Lori is a graduate of Prince Institute of Professional
Studies in Montgomery, Alabama. Upon graduation,
Lori passed the Registered Professional Reporter exam. She has since become a real-time writer.
"I can honestly say I love my job. It's different
faces, different cases and different places every
day. At each deposition you learn something new;
something you didn't know before that day started.
What an opportunity it is to get paid to learn
and to work with some of the finest people in
our profession."
Lori's hobbies include spending time with her boys, family and friends, traveling, golfing....but most of all lying on the beach in Destin.
Mallory Gray, CCR
Birmingham/North Alabama
Mallory graduated Magna Cum Laude from Gadsden State Community College with an Associates Degree in Real-time Reporting. She has been working as a freelance reporter since 2006. She is a member of the National Court Reporters Association and the Alabama Court Reporters Association.
Mallory McCutchin, RPR
Montgomery
Mandy Bryant, RPR
Atlanta
Mandy graduated from the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 1998 with a B.A. in art history and went on to graduate from the Court Reporting Institute in 2000. She started her career with Foshee & Turner and is honored to now be a part of the Freedom Court Reporting family. She says, "Being a court reporter is incredibly rewarding. It has afforded me the opportunity to meet fascinating people, gain invaluable knowledge, and travel to many wonderful cities across the globe."
Maya Xiong Rose
Birmingham
Melanie Petix
Birmingham
Mellie Phillips
Gadsden
Melissa Smith
Chatanooga, TN
Michelle Parvin
Birmingham
Mickey Turner
Birmingham
Mickey Turner began court reporting in 1974 after graduating from Lippert's Court Reporting College in Plainview, Texas. For over thirty years she has loved all facets of the court reporting business: reporting depositions, spending time with clients, office management, and training new reporters. Mickey and Mike have three wonderful children, Starr (21), Bentley (20) and Beau (9). Hobbies include reading, horses, and court reporting.
Mike Turner
Birmingham
Mike was born July 2, 1953 and raised in Atlanta, GA. He graduated from Hueytown High in Hueytown, AL in 1971 and attended college at UAH for two years in Huntsville, AL. He then went on to finish at UAB with a Bachelor of Science in Business in 1976. Studying court reporting, he attended Lippert's College of Court Reporting in Plainview, Texas and started working for National Court Reporting Service in 1977. After that, he started Tuscaloosa Court Reporting in Tuscaloosa, AL in 1981, while working at the same time with Foshee and Turner Court Reporting until it was sold in 1998 to Legalink, Inc. along with Tuscaloosa Court Reporting. Mike then worked as Area President along with Mickey for Legalink until 2004. He says " Mickey and I started Freedom Court Reporting in May of 2005 where we currently work with the best people in the world! Mickey and I married in July of 1976 and have 3 children, Starr, Bentley and Beau." His hobbies are spending time with his family, flying and doing volunteer work in a healing/prayer ministry. Mike has been a pilot since 1973 and proposed to Mickey while flying in a Cessna 150 over 30 years ago. He currently flies corporately as well as for fun.
Nicole Paulk
Montgomery
Pat Higgins
Montgomery
Paul Morse
Mobile/Mississippi
Pauline Angress
Guntersville/Nashville
Rena Lanier
Auburn, Opelika
Renny McNaughton
Greenville
Robin Reynolds
Gadsden
Board Certified Court Reporter since 1994. Official and Freelance reporter in the New Orleans and metro area. Relocated to Gadsden June of 2010. Serving the Greater Gadsden Area, Calhoun, Marshall, Jefferson, and all surrounding counties.
Sali Sears
Mobile, Mississippi
Sali has been a court reporter for 26 years. She holds certifications in Alabama and Mississippi and loves her job!
Sarah Mahler Rohas
Montgomery
Sara Mason
Mobile
Shana Cooper Leake
Mobile
Shannon Carroll, CCR, RPR
Birmingham
Shannon is a graduate of Brown College of Court Reporting in Atlanta, Georgia. After graduating in August of 1990, she went to work for Charles & Mickey at Foshee & Turner. She has been with Freedom since its inception and enjoys every aspect of court reporting. Shannon shares, "I have a 10-month-old son who is the love of my life. I wondered for years how life in this profession would be with children, and I seem to be managing it pretty well!"
Shannon Yost
Montgomery
Sheila McKinney
Mississippi/Oxford
Sheri Connelly
Birmingham
Sherry McCaskey, CCR
Dothan
Sherry graduated from Prince Institute in Montgomery and was a medical transcriptionist for 17 years before beginning a second career in court reporting. She resides in Dothan with her husband, Wayne, and is happy to be part of the Freedom Family.
Stacy Lovin
Birmingham
Stacy Mays
Florence
Stacy graduated from Huntsville Business Institute in 1999 and primarily works the Northwest Alabama region. She was with Foshee & Turner, and now Freedom Court Reporting since February of 2000. When she's not working, she's taking her son to practice or a game, either baseball or football, depending on the season.
Stephanie Nicholas
Birmingham
Stone Arledge
Birmingham
Susan Masters Goldman, CSR
Birmingham
Attended Prince Institute in Montgomery, Alabama and started reporting in 1980 as a freelance reporter in Birmingham, Alabama.
Susan McLane
Birmingham
Tammy Ford, CSR
Anniston/Oxford
Tammy began her court reporting career with Charles Foshee and Mickey Turner in July of 1996. She is proud to be part of the Freedom family.
Tammy Steele
Birmingham
Tammy has been in court reporting for a little over five years. She says "I love it more every day. I started out with Foshee & Turner, and I am so happy now to be back working with Mike and Mickey. I think it means everything to enjoy your job, and if you can find people that you enjoy working with, well, that's even better. Court reporting , for me, has been such an enriching and inspiring pursuit because every day you learn something new. Whether it's learning about nuts and bolts on an assembly line or heart transplant surgery, we get to hear about it all. Not many people get to do that. I wouldn't trade it for anything!"
Tanya D. Cornelius, RPR, CSR
Birmingham
Tanya is a graduate of Gadsden State Community College and has been working as a reporter since 1991.
Tara Staggs Gristina
Florence
Tara graduated from Alabama Career College in Huntsville in August of 2001 and has been working in Florence as a court reporter since then. She got into court reporting on the recommendation of her brother, Clay Staggs, who is a tax attorney in Tuscaloosa. Tara was also a scopist for another court reporter for a year before graduating and starting her own career as a reporter.
Teresa Davis
Birmingham
Terry Comstock
Nashville, TN
Theresa Epp
Huntsville
Trine Mitchell
Nashville, TN
I cover Greater Nashville Area and Middle Tennessee. I have 24 years experience and specialize in medical malpractice.
Vicki Thompson
Huntsville, Decatur
Vicki completed her B.S. in Business from Freed Hardeman University in 1981. She worked for ten years as a tech editor at Teledyne-Brown Engineering and Boeing before deciding to take some time off to be at home with her children. When it was time to return to the work force, she opted to return to school again instead, "one of the best decisions I ever made!" she says. She graduated with her court reporting degree in 1998, at which time she began working in the Huntsville/Decatur area with Associated Reporters, then moving to Foshee & Turner, and subsequently Freedom. Vicki was born in Decatur, and has spent most of her life in northern Alabama. She has two teenage/adult children, soon to be at Auburn and UNA. In her spare time she enjoys playing with her dogs and reading.
Wendy Timbie
Montgomery
Yulandar Marshall
Mobile
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