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Judge Wynn Receiving National Honor
Article Date: Friday, July 18, 2008
Written By: Russell Rawlings
Judge Jim Wynn |
Judge Jim Wynn of the N.C. Court of Appeals, chair of the
Judicial Division of the American Bar Association, will receive the
2008 Raymond Pace Alexander Award on July 30.
Wynn, who serves as the Senior Associate Judge, will receive the
award at the Thurgood Marshall Awards Luncheon during the 83rd
Annual Convention of the National Bar Association in Houston.
The award - given for contributions to judicial advocacy and
scholarship - is named for Judge Alexander, the first
African-American judge to sit on the Philadelphia Court of Common
Pleas.
A Cary resident, Wynn served as a vice president of the North
Carolina Bar Association in 2000-01 and chaired the NCBA's Brown v.
Board of Education Committee in 2003-04.
Excepting one year of service on the N.C. Supreme Court in 1998,
Wynn has served on the Court of Appeals since 1990. He received his
J.D. from Marquette University in 1979 and LL.M. from the
University of Virginia in 1995.
The National Bar Association, based in Washington, D.C., was
established in 1925 in Des Moines, Iowa. The nation's oldest and
largest national association of predominately African-American
lawyers and judges, the NBA has 84 affiliate chapters throughout
the United States and affiliations in Canada, the United Kingdom,
Africa and the Caribbean, and represents a professional network of
over 20,000 lawyers, judges, educators and law students.