Mr. Compton is a partner in the law firm Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP (formerly Bradley, Arant, Rose & White) in its Birmingham, Alabama office and serves as Chairman of its Finance Committee. He joined the firm in 1989 upon his graduation from the University of Virginia School of Law. Since that time he has been involved in advising clients regarding consumer lending and regarding loans and investments by banks and other financial institutions in affordable housing and community development projects. He is also outside General Counsel to the Alabama Affordable Housing Association and a member, and former state chairman, of the American Bar Association Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development. He is a 1985 graduate, summa cum laude, of the University of Alabama, where he was named the College of Commerce’s Outstanding Student in 1985. He also attended the London School of Economics and Political Science as an undergraduate. He is a 1983 Truman Scholar and presently serves on the Board of Directors of the Truman Scholars Association. Mr. Compton grew up in Georgiana, Alabama and lives in Mountain Brook, Alabama with his wife, Dana. They have three adult children, Catherine, Jerome and Anne.