John M. Moorhead

John M. Moorhead is a native of Albany, Georgia, where he graduated from high school at Deerfield-Windsor School in 1997 after attending the school for 13 years. After graduation, John attended college at the University of Georgia where he graduated in 2001 with a BBA in Finance, summa cum laude with honors. While an undergraduate,  John was initiated into the Gridiron Secret Society his junior year; was in the Honors program four years; served as a student advocate in the student judiciary four years; received the Charter Scholarship four years; and was inducted into several academic honor societies.

John then attended the University of Georgia School of Law, where he received the degree of Juris Doctor in 2004, cum laude. In his second and third years, John pursued two extracurricular passions – moot court and the Federalist Society.

John was very active in the law school’s moot court program where he:

• • Competed in the Jessup International Moot Court Competition where the UGA team took runner-up in the Southeast United States Regional tournament in Memphis, Tennessee, in his second year
  • Participated on the Gray’s Inn Moot Court Team, which competes against Gray’s Inn, London, England; he mooted in Atlanta, Georgia, before the Georgia Supreme Court and in London, England, where he was judged and hosted by solicitors of the Queen’s Counsel.
  • Served as chairman of the Moot Court Board in his third year.
  • Was inducted into the Joseph Henry Lumpkin Inn of Court, Atlanta, Georgia, as a pupil.
  • Upon graduation, was awarded the Kerry Harike Joedecke Memorial Award for Excellence, which is given to the outstanding Moot Court board member in each graduating class.

John, along with another law student a year ahead of him, resurrected the Federalist Society Chapter of the Law School, where he served as vice-president his second year and president his third year. During those two years, the Chapter hosted over a dozen debates on current legal issues with an attendance that grew to average over 150 attendees in his third year with two events filling 300-person capacity lecture halls with standing room only. This outlet fulfilled John’s desire for important issues to be debated by the sharpest minds on each side of the issue in an academic environment.

Upon graduating from law school, John formed Moorhead Law Firm LLC with his father, Bill, and focuses his practice in both practice areas of the firm – trusts and estates and business law.

John is a member of the State Bar of Georgia and is licensed to practice in all state courts, the United States Supreme Court, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, and is a member of his local Dougherty County Bar Association.

John is married to the former Amanda Leigh Hardee of Sugar Hill, Georgia, and they have three children, Elizabeth, William, and Samuel. John enjoys spending time with his wife and children, attends Sherwood Baptist Church, and enjoys playing sports, hunting, and fishing with them.