Mr. Wilder graduated Summa Cum Laude with Honors from Oglethorpe University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Classical Civilization in 2001.  He attended The University of Georgia School of Law where he graduated Cum Laude with a Doctor of Jurisprudence in 2004.  While at law school, he served as an articles editor for the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law.   .

After graduation he became a judicial law clerk in the Macon Judicial Circuit, assisting Judges Lamar W. Sizemore and S. Philip Brown.  Mr. Wilder joined The Law Offices of Emmett L. Goodman, Jr. LLC in 2005 and specializes in bankruptcy, civil litigation, and Social Security disability. 

Mr. Wilder is a member of the State Bar of Georgia and is admitted to all state and federal courts in Georgia, Gerogia Court of Appeals, Georgia Supreme Court, Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals, and United States Supreme Court. .  He was trial counsel in the case of In re Appling, 584 U.S. 709 (2018, a successful appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court and the only Bankruptcy case in recent memtory to make it there from Middle Georgia.

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