Bill Trussell has been a practicing attorney in Pell City and St. Clair County for more than forty years, focusing on real estate law, estates and estate planning, commercial law, municipal law, and civil litigation. During his tenure as an attorney, he was honored to serve as the attorney for the City of Pell City, the City of Odenville, the City of Springville, the Town of Margaret, the City of Ashville, the St. Clair County Commission, the St. Clair County Board of Education, the St. Clair County Health Care Authority, the Coosa Valley Water Supply District, the Wattsville Water Authority, the Cook Springs Water & Fire Protection Authority, the New London Water Authority, as well as serving as counsel for Union State Bank, the former St. Clair Federal Savings & Loan Association, and National Cement Company, among hundreds of other clients.
Bill graduated from the University of Alabama, in 1969 with a B.S. degree in Chemistry. Thereafter, he graduated from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1972, with a Juris Doctor Degree, where he was a member of the Alabama Law Review. Bill also completed postgraduate studies in Income Tax and Estate Tax law at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, as well as some postgraduate studies at Georgetown University Law School in Washington, D. C. He completed the required course of study to serve as a licensed mediator as determined by the Alabama State Bar Association and actively serves as mediator in civil litigation in St. Clair County, Alabama.
After graduation from law school, Bill began his career as an Associate Attorney at Lange, Simpson, Robinson & Sommerville, in Birmingham, Alabama. In 1974, Bill moved his family to Pell City to partner with Billy L. Church and Charles E. Robinson in the practice of law. Through the years, the name of the law firm may have varied, but Bill’s dedication to the practice of law has remained constant throughout the many changes. Bill is admitted to the practice of law before all courts in the State of Alabama including Small Claims Court, District Court, Circuit Court, Alabama Criminal Court of Appeals, Alabama Civil Court of Appeals, and the Alabama Supreme Court. He is also admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Northern and Middle Districts of Alabama, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court. He was honored to serve as Bar Commission to the Alabama Bar Association for the 30 th Judicial Circuit of Alabama.
He has been happily married for forty-nine years to Isabella Cody Trussell and they had a daughter, the late Cecily Huffaker, and one son, Alan Trussell. But perhaps the true light in Bill’s eye are his four grandchildren, Mary Virginia and Robert Huffaker, and Chloe and Ben Trussell, who keep he and Isabella on the move attending sporting events and dance and music recitals on a regular basis.
Bill has been active in numerous civic organizations, serving in various positions of leadership in many of them, including the Pell City Chamber of Commerce, the Kiwanis Club of Pell City, St. Clair Association of Realtors, St. Clair County Chapter of the University of Alabama Alumni Association, the Red Elephant Club, and also served as an Executive Committee Member for the Alabama Democratic Party.
If one wanted to find one word that best describes Bill Trussell, the attorney, that word would be dedicated. He has always been dedicated to the law profession and dedicated to performing the best job he possibly can in the representation of his clients.