Immediate Past President

Kimberly H. Stogner

Immediate Past President Kimberly H. Stogner of Winston-Salem served as the 130th president of the North Carolina Bar Association. Stogner also served in 2024-25 as president of the North Carolina Bar Foundation.

Stogner is a 1986 graduate (cum laude) of Wake Forest University and a 1994 graduate (cum laude) of Wake Forest University School of Law, where she was editor of the Wake Forest Law Review. She has practiced with Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP and its predecessor, Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLP, since 2009. She is a partner with the firm, leader of the Trusts and Estates team and a member of the Wealth Management Industry team. She is a Certified Specialist in Estate Planning and Probate Law.

She served as a personal trust officer for two national banking organizations prior to attending law school and earned the Certified Financial Planner designation. She began her legal career with Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton (1994-2000) and later practiced with Vaughn Perkinson Ehlinger Moxley & Stogner, LLP (2001-2008).

Stogner has held many roles within the NCBA, including service as chair of the Estate Planning & Fiduciary Law Section (2009-10). She served on the NCBA Board of Governors and the NCBF Board of Directors from 2010-13 and was a member of their executive committees throughout her tenure. Stogner has also served as co-chair of the Legislative Advisory Committee (2018-22), as a member of multiple committees, and as a charter member of the NCBA Health Benefit Board of Trustees, serving from 2002-09.