Cabaniss, Johnston, Gardner, Dumas & O’Neal LLP
2001 Park Place North, Suite 700
Birmingham, Alabama 35203-4804

Telephone: 205-716-5245
Facsimile: 205-716-5389
Email: afb@cabaniss.com 

Initial contact with this attorney by email does not create an attorney-client relationship.

Areas of Practice:

Asset Protection Planning
Business Succession Planning
Charitable Planning and Tax
     Exempt Organizations
Corporate and Business Law
Estate and Wealth Transfer
     Planning
Taxation
Prenuptial/Postnuptial
     Agreements
Probate Litigation/Guardianship/
     Conservatorship
Probate, Estate and Trust
     Administration
Real Estate Transaction and
     Financing
Special Needs Planning
Taxation & IRS Audits

Education:

J.D., magna cum laude,
     Cumberland School of Law of
     Samford University, 1999 (Phi
     Alpha Delta, Sports and
     Entertainment Law Society,
     Member, Curia Honoris,
     Cumberland Law Review, 1997-
     1999, Cumberland Scholar of
     Merit Mary Love Collins
     Memorial Scholarship)
 
M.B.A, cum laude, Auburn
     University, 1995
 
B.S., magna cum laude, Auburn
     University, 1993

Admitted to Practice:

Alabama State Bar (1999)
U.S. District Court for the
     Northern District of Alabama
U.S. District Court for the Middle
     District of Alabama

Anna F. Buckner

Anna Funderburk Buckner is a partner in the Birmingham, Alabama office of Cabaniss, Johnston, Gardner, Dumas & O’Neal LLP, where she practices in the areas of estates and trusts, including estate planning and administration, taxation, real estate and corporate law. A former professional tennis player, Mrs. Buckner attended Auburn University (B.S., cum laude, 1993; M.B.A., 1995) and Cumberland School of Law (J.D., magna cum laude, 1999). She was a member of the Dean’s List, Cumberland Merit Scholar, recipient of the Mary Love Collins Memorial Scholarship, member of Phi Alpha Delta, Who’s Who Among American Law Students, Sports and Entertainment Law Society, Curia Honoris, and Cumberland Law Review.

Mrs. Buckner is a licensed real estate agent, and a former member of the National Association of Realtors and the Birmingham Association of Realtors. She is a member of the Alabama, Birmingham and American Bar Associations and participates in the Sections on Business Law, Taxation, and Real Property, Probate and Trust Law.

Mrs. Buckner currently serves on the Alabama Advisory Board for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Alabama as Vice President and she also served on the Cumberland School of Law Annual Fund Committee and is a member of the Kiwanis Club of Birmingham. She served on the Board of Directors for the Auburn University Bar Association and was a member of the Charter Class of the Alabama State Bar Leadership Forum in 2005. She has also been an adjunct professor at Cumberland School of Law teaching Real Estate Transactions.

Mrs. Buckner is a member of the Birmingham Estate Planning Counsel and the Alabama and National Associations for Charitable Planned Giving. She is a member of the Alabama Law Institute where she was a member of the committees that revised the Alabama Prudent Investor Act, the Alabama Uniform Trust Code, the Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act, and the Alabama Durable Power of Attorney Act. Mrs. Buckner frequently lectures on estate planning topics locally and regionally. She was recently selected to Membership of the Alabama Law Institute to write and review legislative bills for the State of Alabama, for the term ending in 2016, and she was elected as a Fellow in the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC).