Stephanie (Stevie) Casteel practices as Partner in the Atlanta office of King & Spalding LLP, and is a member of the firm’s Tax Practice Group. Ms. Casteel leads the firm’s Trusts and Estates practice, which includes wealth transfer, business succession planning, charitable planning and tax-exempt entities, and estate administration.

Ms. Casteel is a fellow of The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) and is an appointed member of its Charitable Planning and Exempt Organizations committee. She also serves as Vice-Chair of the Charitable Planning Section of the Charitable Planning and Exempt Organizations Group of the Real Property, Trust & Estate Law Section of the American Bar Association (ABA), and will become Chair of the Legislative and Regulatory Issues Section in Fall, 2009. She also serves the ABA as an Associate Probate and Trust Articles Editor for Real Property & Probate and as a member of the Sponsorship Committee. Ms. Casteel most recently served on the Trust Code Steering Committee, Fiduciary Legislation Committee, and Uniform Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act Drafting Committee of the Fiduciary Section of the State Bar of Georgia, and as a member of the Board of Directors of the Atlanta Estate Planning Council.

Ms. Casteel is a frequent writer and lecturer. She has written articles for Atlanta Woman, Tech Journal South, The Practical Tax Lawyer, Property & Probate, Estate Planning, and Family Advisor, and she has been quoted in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, Pink Magazine, Worth Magazine and The Sunday Paper. Ms. Casteel has given lectures across the nation to groups of the ABA, ACTEC, ALI-ABA, the Southern Federal Tax Conference, the Georgia Federal Tax Conference, and the State Bar of Georgia. She recently appeared in an interview on CNN’s Eleven O’Clock Show and on the 5:00 news with Pam Martin on WSB-TV. Ms. Casteel has been named a Georgia Super Lawyer annually since 2004, and was named one of the Top 50 Women Lawyers in 2009. She was selected as one of Georgia Trend’s 2005 Legal Elite, and she was most recently selected by her peers to be included in the 2009 Best Lawyers in America Guide in the areas of both Non-Profit/Charities Law and Trust & Estates.

Ms. Casteel graduated with honors from Agnes Scott College in 1988. She received her law degree with distinction in 1991 from Emory University, where she served as managing editor of the Emory Law Journal and was elected to Order of the Coif. She served from 1991-1992 as law clerk to the Honorable Morey L. Sear of the Eastern District of Louisiana.

Ms. Casteel serves on the Board of Directors of Prevent Child Abuse Georgia and serves as a member of its Fundraising Committee and its 2009 Fun Fete Sponsorship Committee. She serves as the Co-Chair of the Foundations Committee of the Woodruff Arts Center annual campaign, and she was awarded the Charles R. Yates award for her work on this committee in 2007. Stevie serves on the Planned Giving Committee of Atlanta’s United Way, she is a former board member of G-CAPP, and she has participated in Atlanta Women’s Foundation’s “Women on Board” program. Stevie also volunteers with the Ladies’ Auxiliary of Piedmont Hospital and the Adopt-A-Grandparent Wills program of FSC Urban Ministries.

Stevie and her husband, Bob Fehskens, have a two-year old son and reside in Buckhead.