Jimmy Hurt

Jimmy was born in Macon, Georgia on October 15, 1966 and grew up in the small South Georgia community of Cordele. Upon graduation in 1984 from Crisp County High School, moved to the Atlanta area and attended Mercer University-Atlanta Campus. He continued his education at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) where he studied Chemistry, and in his sophomore year, Jimmy transferred to the University of Georgia where he achieved his Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology in 1989.

After graduation from UGA, Jimmy began a career in the poultry industry and held various managerial positions in sales, quality assurance and processing from 1990 until resigning his position as Quality Assurance Manager with ConAgra Poultry in Athens in 2000.

Jimmy attended Georgia State University College of Law, where he became a member of the Moot Court Board, the President of the Student Trial Lawyers Association, and the organizer and founding President of the Oglethorpe Legal Society. Jimmy graduated with honors (cum laude) in 2003. Jimmy continued the family “calling” to the law by becoming the 21st lawyer in his family – a tradition that began with his great grandfather, Warren R. Mixon of Ocilla, Georgia in 1922.

Jimmy was sworn in as a member of the Georgia Bar in November, 2003 and began practice with Silver & Archibald, LLP in Athens, Georgia, focusing on social security disability, claimants’ workers compensation, private insurance long term disability, and personal injury.

He joined the law firm of Winburn, Lewis & Stolz, LLP in August, 2004 and has focused his practice in the areas of Consumer Protection, ERISA/Long-Term Disability, Products Liability, and Personal Injury.

Jimmy is a member of the Western Circuit Bar Association, the State Bar of Georgia, the Georgia Trial Lawyers Association, the American Bar Association, the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the National Association of Consumer Advocates, the Graduate Leadership Council of Georgia State University College of Law, a current board member of the General Practice and Trial Section of the State Bar of Georgia, and and a former Alumni Chancellor and current executive committee member of the Oglethorpe Legal Society. He is licensed to practice in all courts of Georgia including the Georgia Court of Appeals, the Georgia Supreme Court, and the United States District Courts for both the Middle District of Georgia and Northern District of Georgia. He has also appeared specially in the United States District Courts for the Southern District of Georgia and for the Middle District of Alabama (pro hac vice).