About Nancy Kirby
Nancy started at Beasley Allen in May of 2011 and works in the Toxic Torts/Environmental Section of the firm. She is currently involved in the BP oil spill litigation.
Nancy is a 1992 graduate of Troy State University, where she received an academic scholarship to study double majors in English and Economics. While attending college, Nancy was a member of Sigma Tau Delta English Honor Society and Omicron Delta Epsilon Economics Honor Society. She was also a musician and color guard member in the Sound of the South marching band directed by Dr. John M. Long.
While attending law school as a working single mother, Nancy served two terms as Associate Editor of the Law Review Board. Her paper discussing Fourth Amendment rights was published in the Jones Law Review. She also served as a Justice on the Student Bar Honor Court; she was a member of the Kenneth F. Ingram Senate of Delta Theta Phi law fraternity; a member of the Jones School of Law Family Violence Project; and she completed an internship for then-Alabama Attorney General, Bill Pryor. Nancy was recognized for Best Scholastic Achievement in Business Enterprises, Equity, and Alternative Dispute Resolution, and was frequently on the Dean’s List.
Nancy graduated cum laude from Thomas Goode Jones School of Law in 1999.
Nancy started her law career with the Alabama Attorney General’s office where she served as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Alabama, practicing under Bill Pryor, and then as a Deputy Attorney General under Troy King. She was assigned to the Attorney General's Public Corruption and White Collar Crime Division, where she prosecuted a wide variety of cases across the state, and was selected in 2002 to represent the State of Alabama as a student of Trial Advocacy at the National Advocacy Center in Columbia, South Carolina.
Nancy left the Attorney General’s office in 2003 upon the birth of her youngest child, where she continued to practice as an appellate attorney for the Attorney General’s office for six years.
Nancy started her own firm in 2004 and currently practices in a variety of areas including criminal, civil, family law, bankruptcy, and probate. She has conducted numerous criminal and civil jury and bench trials, as well as represented both the State of Alabama and clients in appeals in the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals, the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals, and the Alabama Supreme Court.
Nancy is a certified Guardian ad litem and meets the requirements for the Alabama Center for Dispute Resolution’s Mediator Roster. In addition, she is a member of several associations and has served as a Special Judge in the Autauga County Probate Court, as a guest scoring judge in local moot court competitions, and as a guest prosecutor and judge for the Peers Are Staying Straight Teen Court Program. She also volunteers her time in the Alabama State Bar’s Volunteer Lawyers Program.
She is married to MSgt Howard C. Eddings, of Corner, Alabama, and they have six children, with the oldest enrolled in the University of Alabama. They are active members of Coosada Baptist Church, where he is a deacon and she is the Director of Women on Missions. They also own Twisted Pine Farms, a family farm near Prattville, featuring farm-raised beef, cage-free eggs, seasonal organic produce, and honey.
Kirby's Admissions
- Alabama (2000)
- U.S. District Court, Middle District of Alabama (2000)
Kirby's Education
- Thomas Goode Jones School of Law (J.D. 1999)
- Troy State University (B.A. 1992)
Kirby's Member
- Alabama State Bar
Nancy Kirby in the News
- Beasley Allen lawsuit calls blood supply safety into question
- Beasley Allen's Leigh O'Dell named to Plaintiffs' Steering Committee in transvaginal mesh litigation
- Beasley Allen files lawsuit on behalf of family of drowning victims
- Beasley Allen names Chad E. Stewart as firm's newest Shareholder
- Beasley Allen Shareholder Dee Miles to Chair Cumberland Advisory Board



