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Participant Biographies UNC CENTER ON POVERTY, WORK AND OPPORTUNITY ACCESS TO JUSTICE IN NORTH CAROLINA: A RIGHT TO COUNSEL IN CIVIL CASES Participant Biographies Laura Klein Abel Laura Klein Abel is Deputy Director of the Justice Program at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, where she has worked since 1999. Her work is aimed at enhancing the ability of low-income families and individuals to obtain legal counsel and access to the courts, and at securing the freedom of nonprofit organizations to exercise their First Amendment rights in the course of assisting low- income communities. Prior to joining the Brennan Center, Abel was a Gibbons Fellow at Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione, P.C. where she litigated on behalf of low-income people in a wide variety of cases. In preceding years, she was a staff attorney fellow for the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project and clerk for Judge Robert Carter of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Abel received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1994. Charles Becton Now an attorney with the Raleigh law firm of Fuller, Becton, Slifkin & Bell, P.A., Charles Becton is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers, the American Board of Trial Attorneys and the International Society of Barristers. From 1981 to 1990, he was a Judge on the North Carolina Court of Appeals, and in 1985 was named North Carolina Appellate Judge of the Year. Becton was the 2008-09 president of the North Carolina Bar Association. A recipient of many trial advocacy awards, he is also the John Scott Cansler Lecturer at the University of North Carolina School of Law and a Senior Lecturer in Law at Duke University School of Law. Becton received his J.D. from Duke University School of Law in 1969, and his LL.M. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1986. Janet Ward Black Principal of Ward Black Law, Janet Ward Black is the past president of the North Carolina Bar Association. Previously, she was an attorney with Donaldson & Black, P.A. and Wallace Whitley Pope & Black. She also served as an assistant district attorney for Cabarrus and Rowan counties for three years. Black was named a “North Carolina Super Lawyer” in 2006 through 2009, most recently as a Top 50 Personal Injury Lawyer and one of the top 50 women attorneys in North Carolina. She was also named in “North Carolina Legal Elite” by Business North Carolina 2007, as well as in “Best Lawyers in America” 2007 and 2008. Black is an active member of the Access to Justice Campaign and an Advisory Panel member of Legal Services of North Carolina, among many other activities. She is past president of the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers and has served on myriad committees, task forces, bar associations and boards. She is a 1985 graduate of the Duke University School of Law. Burton Craige Before entering private practice in Raleigh in 1984, Craige was a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. He has served as president of the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers, president of the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina, chair of the ACLU-NC Legal Committee, treasurer of Legal Aid of North Carolina, and co-chair of the Civil Procedure Study Commission. He currently serves as Legal Affairs Counsel for the North Carolina Advocates for Justice and co-chairs the North Carolina Bar Association’s Tort Issues Task Force. Craige has received the Walter Clark Award from the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers and the W.W. Finlator Award from the Wake County Chapter of the ACLU of North Carolina. He has an M.P.H. and a J.D. from the University of North Carolina. M. Patricia DeVine Now a newly-retired Emergency Judge, Pat DeVine has served as District Court Judge in Orange and Chatham counties since May 1998. She presides over criminal and civil court, hearing matters that include divorce and child custody disputes; misdemeanor criminal cases; abused, neglected and/or delinquent juveniles; and contested involuntary hospital commitments. Her prior courtroom experience includes nearly four years as an assistant district attorney, three years as state assistant appellate defender and seven years as an assistant public defender. She clerked at the Supreme Court of North Carolina for Associate Justice Harry C. Martin after graduating in 1983 from the University of North Carolina School of Law. Judge DeVine has been an adjunct professor at Carolina Law and has taught law-related courses to undergraduates at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has also taught at North Carolina Central University and at Duke University’s Sanford School of Public Policy. Maxine Eichner Maxine Eichner joined the faculty of the University of North Carolina School of Law in January 2003. Her teaching interests include sex equality, family law, employment discrimination, legal theory and torts. She writes on issues of liberal theory, feminist theory and family law, focusing on the relationship between the state and the family. Eichner held a Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellowship through Georgetown Law School, and clerked for Judge Louis Oberdorfer in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and Judge Betty Fletcher in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She subsequently practiced civil rights, women’s rights, and employment law for several years at the law firm of Patterson, Harkavy, and Lawrence. 2 She attended Yale Law School, where she was an articles editor of the Yale Law Journal. While teaching law, she obtained a Ph.D. in political theory from the University of North Carolina. Debra Gardner Debra Gardner has served as legal director of the Public Justice Center since 2000, where she engages in civil rights and poverty litigation and other advocacy. Before joining the Public Justice Center, she worked in poverty law at the Legal Aid Bureau in Maryland for more than fifteen years. Among her duties at the Public Justice Center, Gardner pursues a judicial recognition of a civil right to counsel under the Maryland Declaration of Rights and coordinates the National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel. She obtained a J.D. in 1982 from Northeastern University School of Law. Rick Glazier Rick Glazier is presently serving his fourth term in the North Carolina General Assembly. Glazier is an employment and labor law attorney, a visiting professor in Criminal Justice at Fayetteville State University and has been teaching pre-trial law at Campbell University School of Law for thirteen years. In the state House of Representatives, Glazier serves as the chair of the Joint Legislative Ethics Committee and the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Education. He is the vice-chair of the Appropriations Committee, the Committee on Rules, Calendar and Operations of the House, the Joint Select Committee on Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Management and the Judiciary II Committee, as well as serving as a member of several other standing and interim committees including the Health, Military and Veteran’s Affairs and Mental Health committees. Glazier received his law degree from Wake Forest University in 1981. George Hausen George Hausen has been the executive director of Legal Aid of North Carolina (LANC), a statewide, non-profit law firm serving the state’s most economically marginalized households, since LANC was created in 2002. At LANC, he has been privileged to work with some of the smartest and most dedicated advocates of social justice found anywhere. He has spent his legal career in legal services since entering the bar in Chicago, where he focused on housing rights and fair housing litigation. Hausen received his J.D. from DePaul University in Chicago. Allan Head Allan Head came to the North Carolina Bar Association as executive secretary in 1973. In 1981, he began serving as executive director of the Bar Association and the North Carolina Bar Foundation. Since 1974, he has also been an active member of the American Bar Association and the National Association of Bar Executives (NABE). He is currently serving as the president of NABE. 3 Throughout the years, Allan has served on the Board of Directors of the YMCA of the USA and as President of the Capital Area (Raleigh) YMCA; he has also served on the Board of Directors of Wachovia Bank and was honored as Executive of the Year by the Southeastern Association of Executives in 2004-2005. Head has a J.D. from Wake Forest University. Robin Hudson Robin Hudson is an Associate Justice on the North Carolina Supreme Court. Admitted to the North Carolina Bar in 1976, she practiced law in Raleigh and Durham until her election to the North Carolina Court of Appeals in 2000. She is the first North Carolina woman elected to the appellate court division without having been appointed first. She served on the North Carolina Court of Appeals from January 2001 until December 2006. During that time, she helped organize and coordinate the Court of Appeals voluntary mediation program. She began her eight-year term on the Supreme Court in January 2007. Except for three years as assistant appellant defender, Justice Hudson practiced law in the private sector and handled a variety of trials and appeals, concentrating on workers’ compensation and tort litigation. She practiced extensively before the Industrial Commission, as well as in state and federal courts. Since 1994, she has been certified to mediate cases from Superior Court and the Industrial Commission. She received her J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1976.
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