Mr. Joel Lee McKie

Hall Booth Smith PC

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Joel McKie

Hall Booth Smith, P.C.

191 Peachtree Street NE

Suite 2900

Atlanta, GA 30303

 

Joel grew up on a peanut, cotton, watermelon, swine and cattle farm in Abbeville, Georgia.  Instructed by those experiences on the farm, Joel now leads Hall Booth Smith’s food and agriculture industry group.  Joel counsels farm and agribusiness clients, both institutional and family-owned, during every stage of farmland and agriculture operations transactions, including negotiations, due diligence, closings, and post-closing integration and operations.  Joel also provides regulatory guidance and litigation services in the food, agriculture, and timber spaces, including specific expertise on the statutory trusts and regulatory framework of the Packers and Stockyards Act and the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act.

 

Joel is a proud Double Dawg, having earned his Jurist Doctorate and Bachelor of Science in Agricultural, majoring in Agribusiness, from the University of Georgia.  Joel also holds an Associate of Science in Agriculture from Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College.

 

Joel is the Past President of the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Alumni Association and is a former member of the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Dean’s Advisory Council.   He is the treasurer and member of the Board of Directors of the Georgia Foundation for Agriculture.  A former State President and National Vice President for the National FFA Organization (formerly Future Farmers of America).  Joel was twice appointed by former Governor Sonny Perdue to the Agricultural Education Advisory Commission.  Joel was recognized in 2011 with the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Alumni Association Young Alumni Achievement Award.  In 2022, Joel was named 40 under 40 by the University of Georgia Alumni Association.

 

Joel is active in the Georgia Agribusiness Council, a lifetime member of the National FFA Alumni Association, a member of the American Agricultural Law Association, and a member of the Agriculture Law Section and Animal Law Section of the Georgia Bar Association.  Joel has been a guest speaker for the American Agricultural Law Association, the State Bar of Georgia Agriculture Law Section, the University of Georgia School of Law Annual Red Clay Conference, the Georgia Young Farmer Association, Georgia Farm Bureau, the Southeast Regional Fruit and Vegetables, and the Georgia Agritourism Association.  Joel and his wife are members of Oak Grove United Methodist Church in Decatur, Georgia.  He and his wife also own and operate Bay Branch Cattle Company, LLC, a small commercial cattle operation located in Wilcox County, Georgia.