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28689
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Joshua Grainger Wright of New Hanover County was a North Carolina Superior Court Judge during 1808-1811. Wright was a strong Federalist and had a positive influence in favor of Wilmington in regional politics.
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Lower Cape Fear Historical Society Bulletin
(NoCar F 262 C2 L6x), Vol. 49 Issue 1, Jan 2005,
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3338
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James Iredell, Sr., is one of only two North Carolinians ever appointed to the United States Supreme Court. His dissenting opinion in the case of Chisholm v. Georgia was the basis for the Eleventh Amendment.
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43656
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Alexander, a graduate at age 15 from Greensboro's Dudley high School in 1934, was the first black woman to be admitted and graduate from Columbia Law School (1945). She was the second black woman to pass the North Carolina bar exam and first to practice in the state beginning in 1947. She was the first Black woman to argue a case before the North Carolina Supreme Court (1955) and she was a member of the state's first integrated law firm (1966). Her story is told in Dr. Virginia L. Summey's book, "The Life of Elreta Melton Alexander: Activism Within The Courts".
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43774
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A native of Windsor, Hazelton attended N.C. Central University. She began her career as a public defender in 2007 and in 2016, was elected Pitt County District Court Judge and later re-elected to that post in 2020.
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North Carolina's Eastern Living Magazine
(NoCar F 252.3 N82), Vol. 15 Issue 3, May 2023,
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