Terri Hoover Odom is a wife and mother of four children, and step-mom to four more! She lives in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana and earned her Juris Doctor in 1985 from Loyola University in New Orleans. Since 1989, Terri has completed well over 500 adoptions. During her years of practice, she has seen first hand the sorrows of infertility and the joys of adoption: from helping birth parents in the delivery room, caring for a new born, or comforting adoptive parents during the waiting period. She believes that choosing adoption is one of the most loving gifts a birth mother can give her baby. Professionally, Terri has been a member of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys since 1998. Currently, she is the only adoption attorney in North Louisiana privy to this membership. The Academy is an association dedicated to the highest standards of practice in the field of adoption law.