Martin Tate is pleased to announce that Fatelia Avery has joined the firm.
Ms. Avery primarily focuses her practice on Martin Tate’s litigation section where she represents clients in various aspects of civil litigation, including commercial litigation, negligence and premises liability defense, and transportation liability.
Before joining Martin Tate, Ms. Avery served as a judicial law clerk to U. S. Senior District Judge Michael P. Mills of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi and as a judicial intern for U.S. District Court Judge Madeline Haikala of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama.
She received her undergraduate degree from Bethel University, and her law degree from the University of Mississippi where she was the recipient of the 2022 Inaugural Student Diversity Award, an honor given for demonstrating a distinctive and ongoing commitment to diversity. She also is a Bessie Young Council Scholar.