Wake County Indivisible hosts Justice Anita Earls
Saturday, January 10
10:30am – 12pm EST
Virtual event
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Hosted in Raleigh, NC 27601
About this event
Please join us for a special event featuring North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Anita Earls. Justice Earls will discuss the Supreme Court’s impact on the daily lives of North Carolinians and the judiciary’s critical role in addressing gerrymandering within our state.
Anita Earls is a civil rights attorney and experienced jurist who is running for reelection to the North Carolina Supreme Court. Her values of justice, equality, and fairness for all were born of the struggle she experienced growing up in a mixed-race family at a time when interracial marriages were illegal in most of the country.
These values and experiences guided Justice Earls’ career choices, leading her to fight for the rights of ordinary citizens across North Carolina in a wide range of civil rights cases. For over 30 years, she stood alongside people whose right to vote was denied, people who were mistreated at work, and the parents of children who were being denied equal educational opportunities, seeking equal justice under the law in state and federal courtrooms.
President Clinton appointed her to be a Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Returning to North Carolina, she worked alongside Julius Chambers at the UNC Center for Civil Rights and, in 2007, founded the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, a nonprofit legal advocacy organization that partners with historically marginalized communities across the South. After serving as the organization’s executive director for 10 years, Justice Anita Earls was elected to the North Carolina Supreme Court in 2018.
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