Joseph W. Spransy was born in Durham, NC, graduated with a major in mathematics from King College (Bristol, TN) where he was on the Dean's List, was a reporter on the Kayseean student newspaper, and played varsity soccer. After teaching high school in the Virginia public school system for two years, he enrolled in the University Of North Carolina School Of Law. As a law student, he was on the Dean List, was inducted into Phi Alpha Delta law fraternity, and served as Secretary of the Student Bar Association and the Student Bar Foundation.

Mr. Spransy practiced with the Birmingham law firm of Bradley Arant Rose & White from 1973 until 1979, when he assumed the leadership of the Law Department of United States Pipe and Foundry Company and its affiliated subsidiaries of Jim Walter Corporation and Walter Industries, Inc. After retiring in October, 2003 as Vice President and Assistant Secretary of U. S. Pipe and Assistant Secretary of Walter Industries, Inc., he opened a solo practice, dividing his time between Birmingham and Pell City, AL. His practice concentrates primarily in the areas of business, corporations, and commercial law; estate planning, wills, trusts and probate; and antitrust compliance.