Campus Speaker: Anita Earls, Associate Justice of the NC Supreme Court

Anita Earls is an Associate Justice of the NC Supreme Court, who has dedicated her professional life to civil rights and social justice.
Before taking office on January 1, 2019, she was a civil rights attorney litigating voting rights and other civil rights cases for 30 years. Anita was the founder and Executive Director of the Southern
Coalition for Social Justice, a non-profit legal advocacy organization in Durham, North
Carolina. In the Clinton Administration Anita served as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General
in the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division. She has served on the North
Carolina State Board of Elections, and the North Carolina Equal Access to Justice
Commission. Anita has taught as an adjunct professor at UNC and University of Maryland
Law Schools and in the African and African-American Studies Department at Duke
University. A graduate of Yale Law School and Williams College, Anita lives in Durham with
her husband Charles Walton. She has two grown sons and two grandchildren.