Oak Book College of Law

Professor J. Douglas McElvy is a graduate of the University of Alabama School of Commerce and Business Administration (1967) and also the University of Alabama School of Law (1971). He served on the Board of Bar Commissioners for the Alabama State Bar from 1991 to 2003, served four terms on the Executive Council, and was elected Vice President of the Alabama State Bar in 2002. He was elected President-Elect of the Alabama State Bar in 2003 and assumed the office of President for the 2004-2005 term. Professor McElvy has also served as President of the Christian Legal Society of Alabama and was elected as a Trustee of the Alabama Law Foundation. In addition, since 1995 he has been a certified mediator, being certified by the American Academy of Attorney Mediators.

Professor McElvy currently serves as Chair of the Chief Justice's Commission on Professionalism. In 2005 he was selected for the Best Lawyers in America and in 2009 he was named to the Alabama Super Lawyers.

Professor McElvy and his wife, Eleanor, have five children and six grandchildren. They reside in Montgomery, Alabama where he is engaged in private practice.