Meredith Shay Peters

Meredith is a fourth generation resident of Covington County and a 1993 graduate of Andalusia High School.  She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from the University of Alabama in 1997.  She also attended the University of Alabama Graduate  School of Education and received her Juris Doctor from the University of Alabama School of Law in 2001.  She is a member of the Alabama State Bar Association and has been licensed to practice law in the State of Alabama since 2001.

Meredith served as a public defender on the steering committee to establish a drug court in Covington County and is currently one of two public defenders with the Twenty-Second Judicial Circuit Drug Court.  She is also currently serving a second terms as a state at-large commissioner with the Alabama State Bar Association’s Board of Bar Commissioners, which oversees the regulation of the Alabama State Bar.  She is the only state at-large commissioner to serve in this post from Covington County and is the only female to serve as a bar commissioner from Covington County.  She also is a member of the Alabama State Bar Foundation Board of Trustees.  She is a past President, Vice-President and Treasurer of the Covington County Bar Association, as well as a past member of Covington County’s Local Advisory Board for Indigent Defense Services.  Meredith clerked for the Attorney General’s Office of Alabama for the State of Alabama Oil and Gas Board in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and interned with the Honorable Terry Everett, U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, D.C.

Meredith serves as a board member on the Megan Kelley Smiles Foundation and is a member of the Andalusia Kiwanis Club.