Alexander W. Bell was born in Lubbock, Texas, in 1944 and received his BA in history from Duke University in 1966. Mr. Bell graduated with honors from the University of Texas Law School in 1969, where he served as the Articles Editor of the Texas Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif. Following law school, Mr. Bell clerked for a federal district judge in Austin, Texas, after which he joined the law faculty at the University of Virginia, where he taught constitutional law, legislative and administrative law, torts, and federal civil rights litigation.
In 1975, Mr. Bell entered into private law practice in Lynchburg. He has had extensive experience over the past twenty-five years representing both plaintiffs and defendants in business, employment, bankruptcy and civil rights litigation in federal district, bankruptcy, and appellate courts. Mr. Bell has been given an AV rating by the Martindale Hubbell Law Directory, and was included in the first edition of Who's Who in American Law. He has lectured and presented seminars on federal civil rights and employment law, including the Americans with Disabilities Act and sex discrimination litigation. He is a member of the Lynchburg and Virginia Bar Associations.
