Education
Wake Forest University—B.A., Honors in History 1977
Wake Forest University School of Law—J.D., 1980

Professional Experience
Presently, I am a principle owner of Simms Showers LLP with offices in Leesburg, VA and Baltimore, MD.  From 1989 to 2002  I was a  principle shareholder at Gammon and Grange, PC as past managing owner and head of Litigation and Appellate Section. Prior to private practice, I was an Assistant US Attorney in Raleigh NC and Special Counsel to US Attorney General, acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Executive Director of Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section in the U.S. Dept of Justice from 1982-1988.

Family
In 1984, I married Evie Showers, who has her masters in city and regional planning and was a public school science teacher.  She now supervises and plans our home affairs for me and our three daughters, Robyn, 19, Jessica, 17, and Bethany, 10.

CLS Involvement
Co-founder of Wake Forest Law School CLS Chapter, North Carolina CLS Chapter and Washington, DC Metro CLS Chapter; Past President and State Membership Director of NC Chapter and Metro DC Chapter. Recently helped start the Loudoun County Va. Law Fellowship. Served on the CLS Board from 1994-2003 and focused on the Center for Law and Religious Freedom, (Vice-chair of CLRF and RLA and helping to launch direct litigation through Religious Liberty Advocate) Public Ministries such as Christian conciliation, legal aid to the poor and needy and legal assistance to church and other nonprofits and most recently Membership Ministries and APF committees as non board member.

Related Experience
My current and past involvement at the grass roots of CLS in student ministries, local chapters, prayer breakfasts and Bible studies enables me to keep “the main thing, the main thing” for CLS.  My interest, expertise, and experience in Constitutional law, nonprofit and church law, public interest law and litigation is helpful to the Center for Law and Religious Freedom and the new public interest law firm RLA as well as advise the Board and president on nonprofit matters.  Because of my law practice, experience as managing partner and my network of friends, I am able to help in management and development of CLS. 

My Vision for CLS
I have been involved with CLS since law school and I hope again to help CLS at a national level by succeeding on a local level to engage one lawyer/law student at a time in both evangelism and discipleship.  My vision for CLS is that we have a greater impact as “salt and light” on the legal profession, church community, and world as a whole.  To accomplish that vision, our mission must touch more lawyers’ lives directly, and we must take our light from under the bushel in order to inform more Christian lawyers and lawyers in general about Christ’s love, grace and mercy for them and that He has a plan for their life.  CLS needs 10,000 to 20,000 active members and more non-lawyers’ sources of income to accomplish our mission to evangelize and disciple lawyer and law students, be salt and light to the legal profession; impact and preserve religious liberty and promotion of family values through law; promote reconciliation, legal aid and help for the poor and needy, and encourage mature Christian lawyers to better integrate their faith into their law practice and everyday lives.