How a ‘Praying Wife’ Helped Birmingham Lawyer Don Mosely Weather the Storm

By Sym Posey | The Birmingham Times Whether it’s being relocated to Birmingham from Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina or dealing with homelessness as a student at Miles College, Don Mosely, 10th Judicial Circuit County Administrator in Jefferson County, is used to weathering storms. Coming from a family of nine siblings, Mosely didn’t have much. “I was a first-generation college student. My family, we didn’t have it like that. I didn’t know anything about college,” he said. “I just knew I wanted to go from the time I was in high school because there was a football coach that told me he thought I was worthy of college.” Overcoming Obstacles While attending Miles College, in Fairfield, Alabama, Mosely struggled financially. “My mom didn’t even know how to send me money while I was away at school. I was home every now and then, and at the time all I had was minutes on my phone. It wasn’t even a flip phone, and I had like two minutes every month. I used to try to go home and ask and beg for money, but they couldn’t support me,” he said. “There’s something about not being able to have access to things that...