Fred A. Hicks is a partner at Katten
Muchin Rosenman LLP. He is a Fellow in, and
a Certified Arbitrator of, the
American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. His law practice prior to 2007 focused
on complex family law litigation and
currently is dedicated to mediation
and arbitration of complex family law cases.
Mr.
Hicks is rated AV by Martindale-Hubbell, has been named in Woodard/White,
Inc.'s The
Best Lawyers in America since 1994, as an
Elite Lawyer by Business North Carolina magazine’s
Legal Elite, and as a Super Lawyer by
Charlotte Magazine.
Mr. Hicks has extensive and wide
ranging experience in family law including serving as a District Court Judge
in 1975 and 1976 and as a member of
the North Carolina Board of Legal Specialization in Family Law. He
also has chaired and served
as a member on various committees of the North Carolina Bar Association
including the Family Law Council, the Family Law Long Range Committee, and the
Continuing Legal Education Committee. Mr.
Hicks received the Distinguished
Services Award for Outstanding Service to the North Carolina Family Law
Section in 1995.
Mr.
Hicks earned his undergraduate degree (B.A. 1965) and law degree (J.D. 1968)
from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
where he served as a member of The Bench for Holderness Moot Court
Competition.
Mr.
Hicks is a member of the Mecklenburg County Bar Association, the North
Carolina State Bar, the United States District Court for the Middle and
Western Districts of North Carolina, and the United States Court of Appeals
for the Fourth Circuit.
Mr.
Hicks served as law clerk
to The Honorable James B. McMillan, District Judge for the Western District
of North Carolina, from 1968 to 1970,
during the period of the trial and decision in Swann v. Board of
Education. This decision, which
directed the use of busing as a
desegregation tool, was affirmed on appeal by the
United States Supreme Court.
