Tom D. Womack
John V. Phelps
Jeffrey W. Puryear
Mark Mayfield
Roger McNeil
Ryan M. Wilson
Chuck Gschwend
Sara M. Gay
Robert Riley
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Tom D. Womack is a principal in the Jonesboro, Arkansas, law firm of Womack Phelps Puryear Mayfield & McNeil, P.A. His practice is limited to the areas of taxation, estates and trusts, business and corporate law, and family wealth transfer planning. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, a member of the College's Professional Responsibility Committee, and has served as the College's Arkansas State Chairman. He formerly served on the Tax Specialty Committee of the Arkansas Board of Legal Specialization and is a past chair of the Tax Section and the Probate and Trust Law Section of the Arkansas Bar Association. He is an active member of the Tax Section of the American Bar Association, serving on its Estate and Gift Tax Committee and Sales, Exchanges and Basis Committee, and has authored a chapter in the ABA Property Tax Desk Book. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America (Tax Law, Trusts and Estates) and Mid-South Super Lawyers, is admitted to practice in the U.S. Tax Court, and has been a frequent speaker on various tax, business, and other educational programs for the legal and accounting professions and for business organizations. Mr. Womack is a Past President of the Arkansas Bar Association and Craighead County Bar Association. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and the Arkansas Bar Foundation and a member of the National Association of Bar Presidents and the Southern Conference of Bar Presidents. Mr. Womack received a B.S. degree in accounting from Arkansas State University, with distinction, and a J.D. degree from the University of Memphis School of Law. He and John V. Phelps have recently endowed the Pre-Law Center at Arkansas State University.
Business Law, Transactions and Organizations
Estate and Wealth Planning
Section of Taxation, Committees on Estate and Gift Taxation and Sales, Basis and Exchanges
Fellow, American Bar Foundation
Arkansas Bar Association
Tax Section, Past Chairman
Probate and Trust Law Section, Past Chairman
Fellow, Arkansas Bar Foundation
National Conference of Bar Presidents
Arkansas Board of Legal Specialization
Tax Law Specialty Committee, 1984-1994
Fellow, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel
Professional Responsibility Committee
Arkansas State Chair, 2006- 2011
Craighead County Bar Association
Arkansas Supreme Court Special Justice, 1991 and 1995
Listed in "The Best Lawyers in America" – Tax Law and Trusts and Estate
Champion of Justice Award from the Arkansas Access to Justice Commission, 2012
Charles L. Carpenter Award - for extraordinary service to the Arkansas Bar Association
Mid-South Super Lawyers 2006-2018
Top 50 Attorneys in Arkansas by Mid-South Super Lawyers 2006-2018
Top 50 Attorneys in the Memphis Area by Mid-South Super Lawyers 2006-2016
University of Memphis School of Law, 1972
Juris Doctor
Law Review, 1971-72
Honors: Moot Court Justice
Arkansas State University, 1968
Honors: With Distinction
Arkansas, 1972
U.S. Supreme Court, 1977
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, 1979
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Arkansas, 1972
U.S. Tax Court, 1980
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