The Attorney · Fredericksburg Traffic Ticket
A soldier's discipline.
A trial lawyer's fight.
Twenty-four years in the United States Army, retired as a Lieutenant Colonel. A second calling standing up for drivers and families across Fredericksburg, Stafford, and Spotsylvania.
Military background
An Army infantryman who became a trial lawyer.
Cloyd served 24 years in the United States Army, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel, and spent roughly half of that career overseas. He is Airborne, Air Assault and Ranger qualified, and has been awarded the Bronze Star and the Order of Saint Maurice at Centurion level, and the Draper Leadership Award.
He deployed to Bosnia; to Iraq for seventeen months; to Afghanistan more than once; and to Egypt, where he was posted on September 11, 2001.
What carried over is not the imagery. He built the firm around a disciplined trial-preparation approach modeled on planning a military operation — preparing completely for something that may or may not happen, and thinking through what might go wrong.
Cloyd A. Smith, Esq.
Founder & Trial Attorney
Military service & experience
Deployments, teaching, and the courtroom.
He taught at West Point
Before Iraq, Smith served on the faculty at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He volunteered from there for a military transition team, a year embedded with Iraqi units.
Tried cases early
Selected to serve as a Circuit Court Clerk, he had won seven bench trials and one felony jury trial before he was a barred attorney.
Admitted to practice
Virginia (2020)
District of Columbia (2022)
Contact / intake
Talk with Cloyd and the team.
Tell us what the ticket says and which court it is in. We'll review the facts and follow up with you.