Kimberly H. Stogner of Womble Bond Dickinson in Winston-Salem has been installed as the 130th president of the North Carolina Bar Association. The swearing-in ceremony took place on Friday, June 21, at the NCBA Annual Meeting in Charlotte. Stogner will also serve in 2024-25 as president of the North Carolina Bar Foundation. The oath of office was administered by Superior…
Rob Harrington of Robinson Bradshaw in Charlotte has been elected to serve as president-elect of the North Carolina Bar Association (NCBA). The election took place on Friday, June 21, during the NCBA Annual Meeting at the Charlotte Convention Center. Harrington will serve in 2024-25 as president-elect of the NCBA and the North Carolina Bar Foundation (NCBF) and will chair the…
The campaign to endow the Open Door Fund of the North Carolina Bar Foundation is officially underway. Formal announcement of the fundraising drive took place on Friday, June 21, at the North Carolina Bar Association Annual Meeting in Charlotte. NCBA + NCBF Past Presidents Caryn McNeill and Mark Holt, who serve as founding co-chairs of the Open Door Fund and…
Seven new members of the NCBA Board of Governors were elected to three-year terms on Friday, June 21, at the 2024 NCBA Annual Meeting in Charlotte. Their election was made official during the Annual Meeting Business Meeting and Luncheon at the Charlotte Convention Center. Newly elected board members who are beginning three-year terms on the Board of Governors in 2024-25…
Samantha Gordon of McIntyre Elder Law in Charlotte and John Cella Jr. of Ragsdale Liggett in Raleigh have been elected to three-year at-large terms on the North Carolina Bar Foundation Board of Directors, and Jon Heyl of Fox Rothschild in Charlotte has been appointed to a three-year term as chair of the NCBF Endowment Committee. The NCBF Board of Directors…
The North Carolina Bar Association honored the 2024 Legal Legends of Color (LLOC) on Thursday, June 20, at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Charlotte Uptown. The ninth LLOC Awards Celebration was a featured event of the NCBA Annual Meeting. Presented by the Legal Legends of Color Subcommittee of the NCBA Minorities in the Profession Committee, the LLOC Awards “honor attorneys…
The North Carolina Bar Association honored numerous individual and group award winners on Friday, June 21, at the Charlotte Convention Center. The Awards Dinner and Presidential Installation was a featured event of the 2024 NCBA Annual Meeting. The Citizen Lawyer Awards, Pro Bono Awards and Young Lawyers Division Awards were presented along with the Paralegal Division’s Distinguished Paralegal Award and…
Good morning and welcome to the 2023 Annual Meeting. Before we begin our long-anticipated programming today, I would like to take a moment to acknowledge concerns surrounding the recent NCBA leadership decision to cancel an event planned by our Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) Committee and underscore our commitment to instituting policies and practices to guide the way forward…
The 2023 Annual Meeting of the North Carolina Bar Association was held June 22-24 in Wilmington. The event featured presentation of numerous awards traditionally bestowed during the annual meeting in addition to recognition of the initial North Carolina Bar Foundation Open Door Fellows and announcement of the 2023 class of the Legal Practice (formerly General Practice) Hall of Fame which…
Upon completion of June 22-24 NCBA Annual Meeting and summer and organizational meetings of the NCBA Board of Governors and the NCBF Board of Directors, the 2023-24 NCBF Board of Directors is set. Afi S. Johnson-Parris of Fox Rothschild in Greensboro and Robert H. Edmunds of Fox Rothschild in Greensboro have been elected to three-year at-large terms. Kimberly H. Stogner…