Graduated, Dickinson College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, May 1981 receiving degree Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and History; graduated, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, May 1983, receiving degree of Master of Arts in Political Science; graduated, Widener University School of Law, Wilmington, Delaware, May 1996, receiving a Juris Doctor.

Admitted to practice as an Attorney at Law and Counsellor at Law in the State of New Jersey, and the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, December 1996.

Law Clerk for the Hon. William F. Forester, J.S.C.

Associate with firm Powell, Birchmeier & Powell, 1891 State Highway 50, P.O. Box 582, Tuckahoe, New Jersey, October 1999 to December 2014; Associate January 2015 to January 2017, Birchmeier & Powell LLC, 1891 State Highway 50, P.O. Box 582, Tuckahoe, New Jersey; Partner February 2017 to June 2024, Birchmeier & Powell LLC, 1891 State Highway 50, P.O. Box 582, Tuckahoe, New Jersey.

Partner with firm Madden & Madden, 1891 State Highway 50, P.O. Box 582, Tuckahoe, New Jersey, July 2024 to present.

Member, Cumberland County Bar Association, Cape May County Bar Association, New Jersey State Bar Association, and New Jersey Defense Association.

Specialties of Practice: Negligence Law; Defense Litigation; Civil Trial; Defense of Public Entities and Public Employees under Title 59 and Section 1983; Defense of Employment Related Matters; Collection Law; Subrogation Law.