Cloyd is a retired Army infantry officer, having served over twenty-three years leading American soldiers in the United States, Germany, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Egypt, Iraq, Afghanistan, Burkina Faso, and Cameroon. He brings that same sense of duty to his clients in his practice of law.
Prior to Founding Smith Trial Law, Cloyd worked at a popular law firm in Prince William County and a prestigious law firm in Fairfax, Virginia where his practice concentrated on complex civil litigation with a focus on business litigation and Trust and Estate Litigation.
Within his first year of practicing Trust and Estate Litigation, Cloyd won a case of first impression in the Virginia Supreme Court successfully arguing that a trust is not a contract that can be enforced against a beneficiary under the Federal Arbitration Act or the Virginia Uniform Arbitration Act. Anderson v. Boyle, 301 Va. 52 (2022). Cloyd lives in Fredericksburg, Virginia, and has four children: Sara, Caitlyn, Chloe, and Liam.





