Bearden Named Most Outstanding Professor of the Year by Alma Mater

UA staff member Bennett L. Bearden has been selected as Most Outstanding Professor of the Year by the Birmingham School of Law graduating class of 2006.

Bearden is director of the Petroleum Technology Transfer Council Eastern Gulf Region at UA. He received the award at the school’s 91st annual banquet held recently in Birmingham.

Bearden has served as an adjunct professor at the Birmingham School of Law since 1994 where he teaches trial advocacy and equity. This is his fifth faculty honor and fourth consecutive teaching award. He received similar awards as one of the outstanding professors of the year in 1997, 2003, 2004 and 2005.

He is a member of the Alabama State Bar, Washington, D.C. Bar and has been admitted to the Roll of Solicitors of the Supreme Court of England and Wales. Bearden received his bachelor’s degree in geography (1980), bachelor’s degree in geology (1981) and master’s in geology (1984) all from UA. He is a 1992 graduate of the Birmingham School of Law, where he ranked number one academically in his class.

Bennett Bearden is the son of Ben and Londa Bearden, long-time members of Trinity.