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Tyler, TX attorney James Volberding grew up in Houston and graduated from Texas A&M University in 1984 with a degree in accounting and finance.  He worked as a CPA for the accounting firm Cooper & Lybrand in Midland, Texas and then as an internal auditor for the management consulting firm Booz-Allen & Hamilton in New Jersey.  From 1987 to 1990, he planned and led audits throughout the firm's worldwide practice offices including London, Paris, São Paulo, Mexico City, Düsseldorf, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, and Washington.

Mr. Volberding graduated from Baylor Law School in 1993 where he was Senior Notes & Comments Editor of the Baylor Law Review.  He clerked for the Hon. Judge William M. Steger, U.S. District Court, in Tyler for two years, and then served as a felony prosecutor in Nacogdoches.  He has been in private practice since 1996.  Mr. Volberding has published articles in the Texas Bar Journal and in The Voice, a publication of the Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers' Association.  He is Board Certified in Criminal Law and currently represents five men on Texas death row.

Mr. Volberding has been married 21 years to his lovely wife Donna.  The couple has five children, ages 6 to 18.  Mr. Volberding is a major with the U.S. Army Reserve Judge Advocate General's Corps, and is assigned currently to the First Legal Support Organization at Fort Sam Houston, Texas.

Mr. Volberding has run nine marathons, including New York, Chicago, Dallas, and most recently the 2008 Boston Marathon, with a personal record of 3:27.  He cycled 100 miles in the Wichita Falls Hotter ‘n Hell 2007 race.  He will run the Dallas and Houston Marathons this winter.

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