AAAA President

David P. Broome is President of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys. The Academy is comprised of over three hundred lawyers throughout the United States and Canada, who devote their energy to adoption and assisted reproductive technology law. As Fellows of the Academy its members are involved in promoting their field of law practice by advocating the competent and ethical handling of family building cases.

David Broome has continuously been in private practice for 34 years. He graduated from the University of South Alabama and received his law degree from the University of Alabama School of Law. His practice focuses on family building including all aspects of private adoption, interstate adoption and assisted reproductive technology including surrogacy and gestational matters.

David was inducted into the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys in 1992. He has served on the Board of Trustees including service as Vice President and Comptroller. He has been Chair of the Grievance Committee, Co-Chair of the Task Force on the Future of Adoption and served on the Public Relations Task Force and Membership Committee.

David Broome is actively involved in legal activities involving Family Law having served as the Chair of the Family Law Section of the Alabama State Bar and also the Executive Board. He is the member of the Family Law Section of the American Bar Association and a past Chair of the Domestic Practice Section of the Mobile Bar Association. Listed in the Martindale-Hubbell Directory of Preeminent Lawyers under Family Law he is board certified as a Family Law Trial Specialist by the National Board of Trail Advocacy. He was a member of the Alabama Law Institute committee that obtained passage of the Alabama Uniform Parentage Act in 2009 that established procedures for declaring legal parents of children born through gestational procedures. He is a frequent lecturer on issues pertaining to his practice.