Education

• AB, 1964, summa cum laude, University of the South, Sewanee, TN
• JD, 1969, University of North Carolina (with honors); Chief Justice Walter Clark Award; Order of the Coif
• MA in Political Science, University of Chicago

Positions Held

• Professor of Law July 1, 1994 to present; Associate Professor, Wake Forest Law School 1991 to July 1, 1994; Visiting Professor, Wake Forest Law School, 1990.
• Lawyer in Residence, Francis Lewis Law Center, Washington and Lee University, May, 1985.
• Member 1977-1985 and Chair, 1978-1985, North Carolina Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) Review Board, concurrent with law practice.
• Instructor at Guilford College teaching Criminal Law, Constitutional Law, and Evidence, 1974-1977, concurrent with law practice.
• Partner, Smith, Patterson, Follin, Curtis, James, Harkavy & Lawrence, 1971 to 1991
• Law Clerk to Chief Justice William H. Bobbitt, North Carolina Supreme Court, 1969-1970
• Summer associate, Lewis Roca, Phoenix Arizona, summer 1968