North Carolina Lawyers Weekly
2018
2017
Lawyer of the Year – Robert E. Harrington – Robinson Bradshaw
Cybil J. Abrao – Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Jonathan Adams – Hamilton Stephens Steele + Martin, PLLC
Mark E. Anderson – McGuireWoods LLP
Elwood Becton – The Becton Law Group, P.L.L.C.
Adrienne S. Blocker – Law Office of Adrienne Blocker
Kate Deiter-Maradei – Deiter Mediation
Gray Ellis – Ellis Family Law, PLLC
Jami Jackson Farris – Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP
Faith A. Fickling – Legal Aid of North Carolina, Inc.
Kimberly Bullock Gatling – Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP
Rebekah Grafton – Fay & Grafton
Christian W. Hancock – Bradley Arant Boult Cummings
Ihuoma Igboanugo – The Crescent Law Practice
Diana Santos Johnson – Bolton Law Group, PA
Anderson “Andy” Little – Mediation, Inc
Barrett C. Mallos – Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
Kim Kelly Mann – Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLP
Caryn Coppedge McNeill – Smith Anderson / North Carolina Bar Association
Michael T. Medford – Manning, Fulton & Skinner, P.A.
Sidney O. Minter – Fisher Phillips, LLP
Annemarie Pantazis – Pantazis Law Firm
Reid L. Phillips – Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP
Megan Sadler – Bass Dunklin McCullough & Smith, PLLC
Elizabeth Scott – Williams Mullen
Lisa M. Shields-Cook – Fidelity National Title Group
Nicole H. Sodoma – Sodoma Law, P.C.
Michelle S. Spak – Duke Energy Corporation
Christian H. Staples – Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick, LLP
Ritchie W. Taylor – Manning, Fulton & Skinner, P.A.
2016
Lawyer of the Year – Gill P. Beck – United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of North Carolina
Leah Michelle Broker – Broker & Hamrick, P.A.
Kenneth L. Burgess – Poyner Spruill LLP
Lynn P. Burleson – Tharrington Smith LLP
Henry Campen – Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP
Amie Flowers Carmack – Morningstar Law Group
Karen H. Chapman – Poyner Spruill LLP
Donna R. Cohen – Donna R. Cohen, Attorney at Law, PLLC
Brian S. Cromwell – Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP
Benjamin Randall David – District Attorney’s Office, Fifth Prosecutorial District
Jeffrey M. Davis – Lincoln Financial Group
Greg Doucette – The Law Offices of T. Greg Doucette, PLLC
John O.N. Eluwa – Law Offices of John Eluwa, PLLC
David Gantt – David Gantt Law Office
Judge Martha A. Geer – Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC
Nancy L. Grace – Wake Family Law Group
Jason B. James – Bell, Davis & Pitt, P.A.
Mark Johnson – Inmar, Inc.
William O. King – Walker Lambe, Attorneys
Tiffany A. Lesnik – Lesnik Family Law, P.C.
Carlos E. Mahoney – Glenn, Mills, Fisher & Mahoney, P.A.
Harrison L. Marshall Jr. – McGuireWoods LLP
Eric Mills – Nexsen Pruet, LLC
Christy Myatt – Nexsen Pruet, LLC
William G. Pagán – Coats + Bennett, PLLC
LeeAnne Quattrucci – Law Office of LeeAnne Quattrucci, P.A.
Robert Blackwell Rader – North Carolina District Court, 10th Judicial District
Shamieka LaCher Rhinehart – Durham District Attorney’s Office
Vince Rozier, Jr. – Wake County District Court Judge
Sarah Cantrell Cowen Seaton – North Carolina District Court, 4th Judicial District
Jim Slaughter – Black, Slaughter & Black, PA
Gray Styers, Jr. – Smith Moore Leatherwood
Sharon A. Thompson – NicholsonPham, PLLC
Louis Alfred Trosch, Jr. – North Carolina District Court, 26th Judicial District
Ann Warren – Duke Energy Corporation
Frank D. Whitney – United States Federal District Court
2015
Lawyer of the Year – Richard T. Boyette – Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog, LLP
Steve Berlin – Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton
Judge Richard Dietz – North Carolina Court of Appeals
Elizabeth Haddix – UNC Center for Civil Rights
Jennifer Harjo – New Hanover County Public Defender
Jeffrey C. Hart – Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A.
Sarah F. Hutchins – Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP
Joe Kahn – Nexsen Pruet
Paula A Kohut – KOHUT, PLLC
Daniel A. Lewis – Hatcher Law Group, P.C.
Margaret (Meg) Behringer Maloney – Maloney Law & Associates, PLLC
Donald Marcari – Marcari, Russotto, Spencer & Balaban, PC
Barbara S. Meeks – Wells Fargo Law Department
William S. Mills – Glenn, Mills, Fisher & Mahoney, P.A.
Karen M. Nelson – Katten Muchin Rosenman, LLP
Leslie C. Packer – Ellis & Winters LLP
Katherine Lewis Parker – Tin Fulton Walker & Owen, PLLC
Mital M Patel – Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton, LLP
John L. Pinnix – Allen, Pinnix & Nichols, P.A.
William Plyler – Edwards Kirby Law Firm
Andrew Spainhour – REPLACEMENTS, LTD.
Jacob H. Sussman – Tin Fulton Walker & Owen, PLLC
Don Vaughan – Don Vaughan Attorney & Counselor at Law
Gerald L. Walden, Jr. – The Fresh Market, Inc.
Robert Zaytoun – Zaytoun Law Firm
2014
Lawyer of the Year – J. Rich Leonard – Campbell Law School
Jon A. Berkelhammer – Ellis & Winters, LLP
William J. Brian, Jr. – Morningstar Law Group
Candice Wooten Brown – RAI Services Company, a subsidary of Reynolds American, Inc.
Jay J. Chaudhuri – North Carolina Department of State Treasurer
Barbara R. Christy – Schell Bray, PLLC
Michael A. Colombo – Colombo, Kitchin, Dunn, Ball & Porter, LLP
Judge Bill Constangy – North Carolina Superior Court
Guy W. Crabtree – Pulley, Watson, King & Lischer
Thomas C. Grella – McGuire, Wood & Bissette, P.A.
Kent Harrell – Law Office of R. Kent Harrell, P.C.
Dan M. Hartzog – Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog, LLP
Thomas H. Johnson, Jr. – Nexsen Pruet, PLLC
Esther Manheimer – The Van Winkle Law Firm
Angela McIlveen – McIlveen Family Law
Carleton Metcalf – The Van Winkle Law Firm
Janeen Miller-Hogue – The Miller-Hogue Law Firm, P.C.
Jackson Nichols – Allen, Pinnix & Nichols, P.A.
Nancy Olah – Nancy Olah Law
Mack Paul – Morningstar Law Group
Judge Paul C. Ridgeway – North Carolina Superior Court
Jennifer Simmons – Legal Aid of North Carolina, Inc.
Christopher G. Smith – Smith, Anderson, Blount, Dorsett, Mitchell & Jernigan, L.L.P.
Deborah Sperati – Poyner Spruill LLP
Paul B. Taylor – U.S. Attorney’s Office
Wanda C. Townsend – Johnston, Allison & Hord, P.A.
Angelique Vincent-Hamacher – Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson
Edwin Jack Walker, Jr. – Walker, Lambe, Rhudy, Costley & Gill, PLLC
Michael L. Wilson – Johnston, Allison & Hord, P.A.
Carolyn Woodruff – Woodruff Family Law Group
2013
Lawyer of the Year – Daniel G. Clodfelter – Moore & Van Allen, PLLC
Aretha V. Blake – Charlotte School of Law
Steve Bowden – R. Steve Bowden & Associates P.C.
Dorothy Bass Burch – Ragsdale Liggett, PLLC
Mark O. Costley – Walker Lambe Rhudy Costley & Gill, PLLC
Michael C. Griffin – Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Charles T. Hagan, III – Hagan Davis Mangum Barrett & Langley PLLC
Carrie A. Hanger – Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP
David S. Henson – Henson Fuerst Attorneys
David R. Hillier – Gum, Hillier & McCroskey, P.A.
Todd A. Jones – Anderson Jones, PLLC
Christopher C. Lam – Nexsen Pruet, PLLC
Luke Largess – Tin, Fulton, Walker & Owen
Lauren Vaughn Lewis – Essex Richards, P.A.
Rebecca K. Lindahl – Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
Daniel A. Merlin – Johnston, Allison & Hord, P.A.
Justice Paul Martin Newby – Supreme Court of North Carolina
Diana R. Palecek – Smith Moore Leatherwood, LLP
Heydt Philbeck – Bailey & Dixon, L.L.P.
Christopher H. Roberts – Crumley Roberts, LLP
Michael L. Robinson – Robinson & Lawing, LLP
Jennifer D. Scott – Shipman & Wright, LLP
Gary K. Shipman – Shipman & Wright, LLP
Troy Smith, Jr. – Ward and Smith, P.A.
Cheryl D. Steele – Horack, Talley, Pharr & Lowndes, P.A.
Ashley H. Story – Troutman Sanders LLP
Martha W. Surles – Hedrick Gardner Kincheloe & Garofalo LLP
Michael G. Winters – Ellis & Winters, LLP
2012
David Neal Allen – Hedrick Gardner Kincheloe & Garofalo, LLP
Noel L. Allen – Allen, Pinnix, & Nichols, P.A.
Anthony J. Biller – Coats & Bennett, PLLC
Daniel Boyce – Nexsen Pruet, PLLC
John E. Branch, III – Shanahan Law Group, PLLC
Barry S. Cobb – Yates, McLamb & Weyher, L.L.P.
W.B. Rodman Davis – Hagan Davis Mangum Barrett & Langley, PLLC
Mel Garofalo – Hedrick Gardner Kincheloe & Garofalo, LLP
Julia Hejazi – Rockingham County District Attorney’s Office
John Timothy Jeffries – McAngus, Goudelock and Courie, LLC
Keith Kapp – Williams Mullen
Norman F. Klick, Jr. – Carruthers & Roth, P.A.
George Kurani – McAngus Goudelock & Courie, PLLC
Erica B. Lewis – Hedrick Gardner Kincheloe & Garofalo, LLP
Donald W. Marcari – Marcari, Russotto, Spencer & Balaban, P.C.
Karin M. McGinnis – Moore & Van Allen
Charles W. McKeller – C.W. McKeller Law Firm
Judge Rickye McKoy-Mitchell – Mecklenburg County District Court
Brandon S. Neuman – Shanahan Law Group, PLLC
Grainger Pierce – Nexsen Pruet, PLLC
Tonya Bunn Powell – Shanahan Law Group, PLLC
Reid Russell – Hedrick Gardner Kincheloe & Garofalo, LLP
Kieran J. Shanahan – Shanahan Law Group, PLLC
Donald R. Vaughan – Donald R. Vaughan and Associates
James C. White – Law Office of James C. White, PC
2011
Mark E. Anderson – McGuireWoods
Tania N. Archer – Moore & Van Allen
Susan H. Briggs, Esq. – Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote
Ashley Huffstetler Campbell – Ragsdale Liggett
Melanie Black Dubis – Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein
David Erdman – Erdman Hockfield & Leone
Howard L. Gum – Gum, Hillier & McCroskey
George R. Hausen, Jr. – Legal Aid of North Carolina
Charles R. Holden – Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice
James Y. Kerr III – McGuire Woods
Tracy Kenyon Lischer – Pulley Watson
Christina McAlpin Taylor – Smith Debnam
Valecia M. McDowell – Moore & Van Allen
Steven A. Meckler – Shumaker, Loop & Kendrick
James F. Morgan – Morgan Herring Morgan Green & Rosenblutt
John W. Narron – Smith Debnam
Nancy Black Norelli – Norelli Law Firm
William Powers – Powers McCarten
Camille Stell – Lawyers Mutual
Craig A. Taylor – Carruthers & Roth
Robin K. Vinson – Nexsen Pruet
Mona L. Wallace – Wallace & Graham
David L. Ward, Jr. – Ward & Smith
Kurt D. Weaver – Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice
Camden R. Webb – Williams Mullen
