Admitted
1993, North Carolina; 1994, District of Columbia
Law School
Yale Law School, J.D., 1993
Law School Graduation Year
1993
College
University of Michigan, B.A., with high honors, 1989
Biographical
Editor and Senior Editor, Yale Law Journal, 1991-1993. Judicial Clerk to Honorable J. Dickson Phillips, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, 1993-1994. Author, Words Are Enough: The Troublesome Use of Photographs, Maps and Other Images in Supreme Court Opinions, Harvard Law Review (Vol. 100, No. 8 (1997); Toeing the Legal Lines, The National Law Journal (12/2/02); REconstruction, Muhammad Ali: The Boxer as Dissident, (Vol.2, No.3, 1994). Lecturer, Campaign and Election Law, Duke University School of Law and Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, 1997. Special Counsel to the Attorney General, North Carolina Department of Justice, 1996-1998. Chief Legal Counsel, NC Governor's Office, 2001-2003. Deputy Attorney General, NC Deparetmtnt of Justice, 1999-2001. Of Counsel, Smith Helms Mulliss & Moore, Raleigh, NC 1998-1999. Special Counsel to the Attorney General. Associate, Wilmer Cutler & Pickering, Washington, DC, 1994-96.