Kendall grew up in LaGrange, Georgia and graduated from LaGrange High School in 1989, after serving his senior class as president. Majoring in Corporate Finance, he attended the University of Georgia. While there, Kendall joined Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Incorporated and served as president from 1991 to 1992.

Kendall is a graduate of the University of Alabama School of Law and is licensed to practice in both Alabama and Georgia. He participates in numerous legal and community organizations, including a task force charged with reconfiguring Alabama’s method of rendering legal services to the state’s underprivileged population. Kendall is a charter member of the 100 Black Men of Birmingham.

Before coming to work at Beasley Allen, Kendall worked in the litigation section of a prominent defense firm for two and a half years. At Beasley Allen, he practices in the areas of Product Liability, General Personal Injury, and Workers Compensation cases involving defective industrial machinery. Kendall has worked on numerous cases aimed at compensating clients for human losses and influencing corporations to manufacture safer products. Kendall was a member of the trial team that prosecuted a wrongful death case against a corporate defendant resulting in a $2.5 million verdict, the largest jury verdict in Selma, Alabama. The suit also influenced the corporate defendant to outfit its entire fleet of trucks with audible backup alarms.

Kendall is currently serving as president of the Alabama Lawyers Association and is the past president of the Capital City Bar Association. He is also serving on the Board of Directors for the Montgomery County Bar Association.

Kendall regularly takes time from the busy practice of law to speak to high school and grade school students about the law, college, and life in general. He is a member of East Side Baptist Church in LaGrange and attends First Baptist Church in Montgomery.