About David A. Pumford, J.D., M.Sc.

Attorney

Dave graduated from the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University and was admitted to the MS Bar in 1999. He served a judicial clerkship with the late Presiding Justice Michael D. Sullivan. He then joined Erik M. Lowrey, Tom Fortner, and the late Robert “Bob” R. Marshall at Lowrey & Fortner, P.A., in Hattiesburg, MS. Dave opened his own business and has served the MS Gulf Coast since January, 2012.

Dave practices exclusively in family law, with over twenty years of experience before Chancellors in the Eighth, Tenth, and Sixteenth Chancery Court Districts, as well as the Mississippi Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.

Prior to his studies at the Cumberland School of Law, Dave earned a Master’s in Political Science & International Relations from The University of Southern Mississippi and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Swansea University in the United Kingdom.

Bar Memberships

  • American Bar Association

  • Mississippi Bar Association

  • Harrison County Bar Association

Certified Mediator

Dave has been certified in the following mediation areas:

  • Certified Divorce and Family Law Mediations

  • Certified in Domestic Violence Screening

  • Certified in General/Civil Mediations

*Certified in Mississippi

*Registration pending in Alabama

About Victoria Pumford, MBA, MPH

Director of Operations | Litigation Paralegal

Victoria serves as the Director of Operations and Litigation Paralegal. She has an MBA degree in business management, finance, and operations as well as a master’s degree in public policy and administration from the University of Southern Mississippi and an undergraduate degree in psychology from William Carey University. She also has an advanced business management certificate from Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management. She has served as the Director of Operations with Pumford Law, PLLC since its opening in 2012.

Victoria began her career as a litigation paralegal in the year 2000 and stepped into her first Director of Operations role within her first year of practice. She has twenty-four years of experience in management and litigation support roles.