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Judge Chris Brook | |
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Judge North Carolina Court of Appeals | |
In office April 8, 2019 –December 31, 2020 | |
Appointed by | Roy Cooper |
Personal details | |
Born | Christopher Anderson Brook [1] December 16,1979 [2] Macon,Georgia |
Political party | Democratic |
Alma mater | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (BA,JD) |
Website | Judge Chris Brook |
Christopher Brook (born 1979) is an American lawyer and jurist.
Judge Brook was admitted to practice in North Carolina state courts as well as each federal district court in the state,the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit,and the United States Supreme Court. He successfully litigated matters in both state and federal court,including before a rare sitting of the full Fourth Circuit.
Active in the local community,Judge Brook served as chair of the board of the Orange County Partnership for Young Children and vice-chair of the board of Transplanting Tradition Community Farm. In 2012,he was a founding member of a monthly housing law clinic at El Centro Hispano in Durham. Judge Brook also served on the Size of the School Task Force and Pro Bono Alumni Board at Carolina Law,and as an attorney volunteer at the Compass Center for Women and Families.
He was appointed to serve on the North Carolina Court of Appeals by North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper in 2019. Brook was then a 2020 candidate for the North Carolina Court of Appeals. In an upset,he lost his bid for a full term in the 2020 general election to Wake County District Court Judge Jefferson G. Griffin.
Judge Brook has received numerous recognitions for his contributions to the community and the legal profession in the state. He was inducted into the James E. and Carolyn B. Davis Society upon his graduation from Carolina Law and was subsequently honored as the school's Outstanding Recent Graduate. In 2016,the North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys awarded him with the Gwyneth B. Davis Public Service Award. Judge Brook was also the winner of the North Carolina Justice Center's Defender of Justice Litigation Award in 2017. [3]
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