Gray joined Lightfoot Franklin after clerking for Senior U.S. District Judge William M. Acker, Jr. of the Northern District of Alabama. Gray is a litigator with a broad base of experience ranging from products liability and media law to class action litigation and white collar criminal defense.   

Outside of the office, Gray serves on the Executive Committee for the Young Lawyers’ Division of the Alabama Bar Association and founded its heir property sub-committee, a partnership with the Alabama Appleseed Center for Law & Justice designed to address the inequities inherent in collective land ownership. Gray is a member of the Board of Directors of the Freshwater Land Trust, a local non-profit land conservation organization, and is the current President of its Junior Board. Gray spends much of his spare time fly-fishing and backpacking. He and his wife, Alexia, are the proud parents of one son.

Gray is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Alabama School of Law, where the faculty elected him to the Order of the Coif. While in law school, he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Alabama Law Review, was a Hugo Black Scholar and received the Jerome A. Hoffman Student Leadership Award. Gray previously attended Washington & Lee University, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science with Special Attainments in Commerce.