Justice Mark Davis

We are pleased to present our January program: “A Warren Court of Our Own:  The Exum Court and the Expansion of Individual Rights in North Carolina.” The program will be presented by Associate Justice Mark Davis of the North Carolina Supreme Court who will discuss his book titled above. Wake Forest Law Professor Wilson Parker will join us and lead a question and answer discussion about Justice Davis’ book.

On March 11, 2019, Governor Roy Cooper named Judge Davis as associate justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. He was installed at the Supreme Court on April 3. Judge Davis was appointed to the North Carolina Court of Appeals in 2012 and was elected to a full eight-year term in 2014. He served as a Special Deputy Attorney General in the North Carolina Department of Justice for five years. He spent thirteen years as an attorney with Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, where he was a member of the firm in the Litigation Section. He also served as General Counsel in the Office of the Governor for approximately two years. Judge Davis received his law degree from the University of North Carolina School of Law and his undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Upon his graduation from law school, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Franklin T. Dupree, Jr. in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina. In 2018, he received a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree in Judicial Studies from the Duke University School of Law.