Martha A. Geer is an American attorney and jurist who served as a judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals.
Geer was born in Grinnell, Iowa and spent most of her childhood in Virginia, where her parents were teachers. Geer attended Bryn Mawr College and earned a degree in sociology before earning a Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1983. At UNC, she was the Managing Editor of the North Carolina Law Review.
Geer worked in the area of corporate law in New York City and North Carolina from 1986 to 2002, when she was elected to an eight-year term on the North Carolina Court of Appeals. She was re-elected in 2010.
On March 16, 2016, Judge Geer announced her intent to resign from the bench in mid-May, 2016, to join the firm of Cohen Milstein. [1] [2]
Sarah Parker is an American judge who served as the Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court from February 2006 until August 2014.
Linda M. McGee is an American judge, who retired as the Chief Judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals at the end of 2020. McGee retired as the "longest serving Court of Appeals judge in state history."
Patricia Ann "Pat" Timmons-Goodson is an American judge and politician who served on the North Carolina Supreme Court from 2006 to 2012. She previously served on the United States Commission on Civil Rights and is a former nominee to be a federal judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. Timmons-Goodson ran for Congress in 2020.
John Marsh Tyson is an American jurist and government official, who currently serves as a Judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals. He also previously served on the court from 2001 to 2009.
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Barbara Milano Keenan is a Senior United States Circuit Judge of United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and a former justice on the Supreme Court of Virginia.
Cheri Lynn Beasley is an American attorney and jurist who served as the chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court from 2019 to 2020. Beasley had previously served on the North Carolina Court of Appeals and as a district court judge in Cumberland County, North Carolina.
Johnnie Blakeney Rawlinson is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nevada.
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Catherine Caldwell Eagles is a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina and a former Superior Court judge in Guilford County, North Carolina. She is the first female judge to serve in the Middle District.
Cressie H. Thigpen, Jr. is a North Carolina lawyer and jurist who served on the North Carolina Court of Appeals.
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Marcia Helen Morey is an American politician, former judge and former competition swimmer who represented the United States at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. She competed in the preliminary heats of the women's 100-meter breaststroke and 200-meter breaststroke events, recording times of 1:17.30 and 2:41.85, respectively.
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Tanya Amber Gee was a judge of the South Carolina Circuit Court.