Anita Earls
What this job does: One of seven justices on North Carolina's highest court. It has the final word on what state law and the state constitution mean, including cases about elections, schools and the powers of the governor and legislature. A term is eight years.
- Current office
- Associate Justice, N.C. Supreme Court (since 2019)
- Occupation
- Senior Associate Justice, N.C. Supreme Court
- Lives in
- Durham
Background
- B.A., Williams College (1981); J.D., Yale Law School (1988). source: ncsbe.gov
- Attorney at Ferguson, Stein in Charlotte, 1988-1998. source: ncsbe.gov
- Deputy assistant attorney general, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, 1998-2000. source: ballotpedia.org
- Founder and executive director of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, 2007-2017. source: ncsbe.gov
- Elected to the N.C. Supreme Court in 2018 and took office January 1, 2019; current term ends December 31, 2026. source: ballotpedia.org
In their own words
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- "An independent Court is critically necessary to the balance of powers" source: ncsbe.gov
- Points to judicial experience: "I am the only candidate in this race with judicial experience" source: ncsbe.gov
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