Mr. Baxter has been in practice for twenty six (26) years. He concentrates in the following areas: banking; commercial and business transactions; commercial real estate; general business representation; regulatory and administrative law, with particular emphasis on telecommunications; environmental law; petroleum marketing and convenience stores; creditors rights; and, wills, trusts and estates.

He is admitted to practice in all Georgia courts, U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Middle and Southern Districts of Georgia, the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth and Eleventh Circuits and the U. S. Supreme Court. Mr. Baxter has served as a lecturer on business, environmental and trust/estates law since 1988. He is a graduate of Mercer University’s College of Liberal Arts (B.A. 1975) and its Walter F. George School of Law (J.D. 1978). He is a member of the Georgia Bar Association (Business and Environmental Law Sections), the Federal Communications Bar Association, the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy, Phi Delta Phi, and the Kappa Alpha Order.

He has served or is currently serving as a member of the National Advisory Council on Rural Development, the Stone Mountain Authority Board of Directors, the Ronald McDonald House Foundation of Central Georgia, Inc., The Cannonball House and Museum Board of Directors, and the Board of Trustees of the Southern Cultural Foundation.

He is a member and Ruling Elder of First Presbyterian Church, Macon, Georgia, and a former Moderator of Central Georgia Presbytery. Having been active in the Republican Party for many years, he has served as county and congressional district chairman and as a member of the Georgia Republican Central and Executive Committees.

He is an avid hunter, fisherman and horseman.