Michael Adkins was born July 14, 1962, in South Williamson, Kentucky, and raised in Delbarton, West Virginia. He graduated from Berea College, Berea, Kentucky, in 1984 with a bachelor's degree in political science, and graduated from Wake Forest University School of Law, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in 1987 with a juris doctorate degree. He is married and he and his wife Cindy have two children: Nick, age 17, and Lydia, age 13. They are members of Wyatt's Grove Baptist Church, an SBC affiliate, where they sing in the choir and teach Sunday School. Michael also serves as church moderator and as a member of the board of deacons, while Cindy plays the piano and leads the children and youth choirs.
Michael's past legal experience includes having served as an assistant prosecutor in Mingo County, West Virginia and as a member of the firm of Adkins & Adkins. Upon his return to North Carolina, he joined the firm of Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice in Winston-Salem. He subsequently joined the law firm of former judge David R. Tanis where he did civil litigation, personal injury, traffic and criminal litigation before moving to Salisbury in 1992 to join the firm of Wallace & Whitley. At Wallace & Whitley his practice concentrated in personal injury and product liability. When that firm split in 1996, he remained as a shareholder in Wallace, Graham & Adkins (which is now known as Wallace & Graham) before leaving to join Cecil L. Whitley in his firm, where he practiced personal injury, civil litigation, traffic and criminal law until opening his own office in 2001.
Michael restricts his practice to personal injury (including wrongful death), civil litigation, traffic and criminal law.
