Legal Practice Hall of Fame Class of 2024: Elizabeth L. Quick
Elizabeth L. Quick (Betty) received her A.B. degree from Duke University, and a J.D., with honors, from The University of North Carolina School of Law. She is a partner (soon to be retired) in the firm of Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP where she specialized in wills, trusts, estate planning, charitable trusts and exempt organizations. She is a Past President of the North Carolina Bar Association and is currently the chair of the Senior Lawyers Division. She has chaired the IOLTA Board of Trustees. She authored and edited the North Carolina Estate Administration Manual published by the North Carolina Bar Association and which is still one of the Association’s premier resource manuals. Betty is a Fellow in the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC), a past member of the Board of Law Examiners and serves on the boards of several foundations and non-profit organizations. Betty has lectured frequently on estate planning subjects, including charitable giving and non-profit organizations, and works pro bono for many nonprofit organizations. Betty continues to serve on committees of the North Carolina Bar Association. She chaired the search committee that hired Jason Hensley as the Executive Director of the North Carolina Bar Association after the retirement of Allan Head. Betty was appointed by the Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court to serve on the first Chief Justice’s Commission on Professionalism, and she received the Chief Justice’s Professionalism award in 2008. Betty has been named as one of North Carolina’s “Legal Elite” in Business North Carolina.
Betty’s husband, Bob, also a lawyer, died in 2012. She has two children, Robert Quick and Sara Loebner, and five grandchildren. She is a member at Mount Tabor Methodist Church.