North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

Dianne Chipps Bailey, Robinson, Bradshaw & Hinson

Dianne Bailey is so passionate about nonprofits that she launched a new practice group at her law firm focused on tax-exempt organizations. For Bailey, serving this sector of the community is both personal and professional. In addition to providing legal services, she provides leadership to a variety of civic and nonprofit organizations in Charlotte.

Christine Mumma, Executive Director, The North Carolina Center on Actual Innocence

Christine Mumma has dedicated her career to the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission, which works to exonerate those wrongly convicted of crimes. Senior Resident Superior Court Judge Carl R. Fox has called the Innocence Inquiry Commission one of the best changes in our criminal justice system in 100 years.

Bonnie Weyher, Yates, McLamb & Weyher

Bonnie Weyher is an accomplished attorney, a founding partner of Yates, McLamb & Weyher, and a pioneer for gender equality. Her work in promoting women in the law has not gone unnoticed. In 2010, she received the Gwyneth B. Davis Public Service Award by the N.C. Association of Women Attorneys.

Beth Hopkins, Professor and Director of Outreach Wake Forest University School of Law

Beth Hopkins has a talent for seeking out opportunities to help people in overlooked communities. Her passion to serve comes from her grandmother who insisted she and her siblings and cousins collect shoes for the children housed in the Children’s Home orphanage near Richmond, Va.