Admitted: 1965, North Carolina; 1969, U.S. Supreme Court
Law School: Harvard University, LL.B.
Member: Greensboro, North Carolina (Chair, Antitrust and Trade Regulation Section, 1997-1998) and American Bar Associations.
Biography: Phi Beta Kappa. Listed in the Best Lawyers of America, first amendment law and labor and employment law sections. Recipient: Norman B. Smith Award, The North Carolina Civil Liberties Union, January, 1993; Frank Porter Graham Award, The North Carolina Civil Liberties Union, 1978. Author: "A Plea for the Total Ban of Land Mines by International Treaty," 17 Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Journal 507, 1995; "Constitutional Rights of Students, Their Families and Teachers in the Public Schools," 10 Campbell Law Review 353, 1988; "The Death Penalty as an Unconstitutional Deprivation of Life and the Right to Privacy," 25 Boston College Law Review 743, 1984; "Age Discrimination," 29 Am. Jur. Trials, 1982; "...Shall Make No Law Abridging...: An Analysis of the Neglected, But Nearly Absolute, Right of Petition," 54 University of Cincinnati Law Review 1153, 1985. Co-Author: with Smith and Gebala, "Job Security for Public Employees," 31 Washington & Lee Law Review 545, 1974; with Smith and Singer, "Limitations on Federal Judicial Power," 14 Wake Forest Law Review 711, 1978; with Sith and Leggette, "Recent Issues in Litigation Under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act," 41 Ohio State Law Journal 349, 1980; Domestic Relations, N.C. Law Practice System, 1984; Collections, N.C. Law Practice System, 1984; with William A. Carroll, "American Constitutional Rights," University Press of America, 1991. Visiting Lecturer, University of North Carolina School of Law, 1979. Extern Professor, Vermont Law School, 1985.
MilitaryService: U.S. Navy, active duty, 1960-1962
Cases: Bumper v. North Carolina, 391 U.S. 543 (1968); Bishop v. Wood, 426 U.S. 341 (1976); Re Little, 404 U.S. 553 (1972); Jones v. North Carolina Prisoners Labor Union, Inc., 433 U.S. 119 (1977); Lorillard v. Pons, 434 U.S. 575 (1978); Springer v. Joseph Schlitz Brewing Co., 510 F.2d 468 (4th Cir. 1975); U.S. v. Snider, 502 F.2d 645 (4th Cir. 1974); In Re Hennis, 276 N.C. 571, 173 S.E.2d 785 (1970); Woodson v. Rowland, 329 N.C. 330, 407 S.E.2d 222 (1991).