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Criminal Justice Leadership

Officers

Chair
John Davis | Federal Public Defenders - Western District of NC
Immediate Past Chair
Tom Murry | State of North Carolina
Secretary
Lambert Guinn | Flannery Georgalis LLC
Vice-Chair
Jacob Kyle Smith | State of North Carolina

Ex-Officio

Communities Manager
BreAnne Shieh
NCBA Executive Director
Jason M. Hensley | North Carolina Bar Association
NCBA President
Robert E. Harrington | Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson PA
NCBA President-Elect
Dena Beth Langley | Brooks Pierce McLendon Humphrey & Leonard LLP

Council Members

Ashley Henehan Acevedo | District Attorneys Office Dist 22B
Marshall Hood Ellis | Michael P. Sanders, PC, Attorneys at Law
John Nieman
Douglas Herron Pearson
Demetria Stuart Heslip | Public Defenders Office Dist 19D
Kelly Dowd Tomasic | Hutchens Law Firm LLP
William Otis Walker IV | Brooks Pierce McLendon Humphrey & Leonard LLP
Amber Leigh Younce | District Attorneys Office Dist 1

Committee Leadership

CLE Committee Chair
William Otis Walker IV | Brooks Pierce McLendon Humphrey & Leonard LLP
Haiti Initiative Chair
Kearns Davis | Brooks Pierce McLendon Humphrey & Leonard LLP
Past Chair
William Scott Harkey | Harkey Litigation