Biography
Thom Goolsby is a writer, professor of law and a trial attorney. He is the Managing Partner of the Goolsby Law Firm, PLLC, as well as being a member of the adjunct faculty at Campbell Law School.Thom was born in Dothan, Alabama and raised in the little hamlet of Ellijay, tucked in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Georgia.
Thom received his undergraduate degree in Business Administration from The Citadel where he was the Regimental Commander of the South Carolina Corps of Cadets. His honors included: a full United States Marine Corps Scholarship, Cum Laude with Departmental Honors, Dean’s List, Gold Stars, Phi Kappa Phi, Economic Honor Society, The Round Table and a Distinguished Naval Student.
After graduating from The Citadel, he served for four and a half years as an officer in the United States Marine Corps and was called back into active services during the Gulf War. Thom earned his MBA at Golden Gate University, San Francisco, California. He received his law degree from the University of North Carolina Law School where he was on the Dean’s List and a member of the Davis Honor Society and the North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation.
Thom was a delegate at the historic “Siracusa Conference” held in Sicily soon after the fall of the Soviet Union. As a delegate at the conference and a guest of the United Nations and the Council of Europe, he assisted in helping the former USSR and Central and Eastern European Republics in rewriting and reforming their criminal codes to include such things as the independence of the judiciary, the right to an impartial trial and the establishment of the “rule of law,”.
Thom served as Legal Counsel to the Crime Commission and worked on issues involving violent crime, prison reform and the most intensive thorough victimization survey ever done in the nation. He coordinated the international portion of the first Southeastern Regional Violent Crime Summit, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice, which brought in criminal justice experts from around the world to assist the region in obtaining workable solutions to its growing epidemic of violent and property crimes. Thom also served as the Legislative Liaison and Legal Counsel to the Juvenile Law Commission where he assisted in advising and lobbying the legislative branch on changes necessary to the juvenile code.
Thom is a much sought after legal counsel due to the many years of courtroom experience and numerous trials.
