print
	email
	translate

Public: Recent News

The Government and Public Sector Section of the North Carolina Bar Association honored Assistant U.S. Attorney Gill P. Beck as the 2005 recipient of the Outstanding Government and Public Sector Attorney Award on Saturday, April 30, during its annual meeting at Carolina Beach.

Mary Jo Beck accepts award on behalf of husband Gill Beck from Associate Justice Robert Edmunds.

N.C. Supreme Court Associate Justice Robert Edmunds made the presentation to Beck via telephone as family members, friends and colleagues listened in. Beck has been serving as a U.S. Army Reserve Judge Advocate in Iraq since January.

The purpose of the award is to honor an outstanding government attorney as an exemplar of the excellence, dedication and passion for justice of North Carolina’s government and public sector attorneys. The NCBA set the following guidelines that recipients must meet in order to qualify:

Five years of recent, continuous practice in public sector law;

Exemplary record reputation in the legal community with the highest ethical standards;

Exemplary record of community service; and

Exemplar of the quiet excellence of North Carolina’s government/public sector attorneys.

Gill Beck

“Gill Beck embodies all of the virtues of a public servant,” said Linda Miles, attorney for the City of Greensboro and chair of the selection committee. “He is a person of integrity, honesty, and loyalty in his service to his country in every way.”

Beck and his wife, Mary Jo, who accepted the award on his behalf, have three children: Joshua, Gill II and Jonathan. Beck currently works as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Greensboro where he is responsible for civil litigation, Federal Tort Claims Act, affirmative civil enforcement, health care, financial litigation, and Social Security.

He is a graduate of the Duke University School of Law where he graduated with high honors.  Beck has held numerous positions throughout the NCBA and most recently served as Chair for the Government & Public Sector Section. In Iraq, Col. Beck has been mobilized as a U.S. Army Reserve Judge Advocate, assigned as the Chief Legal Advisor for Detainee Operations.