Gentry PattersonHere to serve.

My goal is to become a trial lawyer. Before law school, I graduated with honors in computer science, worked for NASA and a TED Prize–winning archaeologist, and managed a network planning team at a major technology company.

In 2022, my wife, Heather, was diagnosed with a life-threatening brain tumor. Navigating the bureaucratic nightmare of our health system during that crisis changed the course of my life. It showed me how easily human suffering can be reduced to paperwork when people don't have someone willing to fight for them. That experience led me to leave my career in tech and go to law school.

Since coming to Alabama Law, I've focused on building courtroom skills through trial training and hands-on litigation experience while excelling academically — including earning Top Paper in Torts during my 1L year. My first summer, I was selected for a fellowship with a trial judge in rural Alabama and served as chief clerk at Marsh Rickard & Bryan. This past summer, I interned for Chief U.S. District Judge Madeline Haikala and then worked alongside my father, Robert Patterson, at Garnett Patterson Injury Law — where I second-chaired a jury trial against the president of the Alabama Defense Lawyers Association and won a $100,000 policy-limits verdict for our client.