After a successful career in banking, Joy Adams continued her career in the financial services industry as an associate with a local financial services firm in 1989. Four years later, she purchased the firm and began managing and developing associates and brokers while continuing to build and service her own clients. In 1996, she renamed the firm Adams Financial Group, and it has grown into a full-service financial services firm.
Joy graduated from the Certified Financial Planning Profession Educational Program of the College for Financial Planning in Denver, Colorado. She completed a Financial Planning Internship at the University of Colorado and received her Chartered Financial Consultant certification from the American College in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.
She is a past officer of the East Texas Estate Planning Council and the Greater East Texas Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors, as well as a past State Professional Development Chairman for the Texas Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors. Joy is a life member of MDRT.
Joy and her husband, Robert, are active members of the Mt. Carmel Baptist Church and live in Troup, Texas.