I. Beverly Lake, Attorney

Prior to law school, Justice Lake was a military Intelligence Staff officer In, the United States Army from 1956 - 1958. He earned his law degree from the Wake Forest University School of Law in 196O and became a partner in a privately held law firm in September of that year. He represented Wake, Harnett and Lee Counties in the N.C. Senate for two terms from 1976 through 1980. In 1979, the N.C. Centre for Public Policy Research ranked him among the ten most effective members of the N.C. Senate. Justice Lake was the Republican Party's nominee for governor in 1980 and served as the state's lead delegate to the Republican National Convention that year. He has served as Assistant and Deputy Attorney General for the Department of Justice, as Legislative Liaison for Governor Jim Martin and as a Special Superior Court Judge. He was appointed by the governor to the N.C Supreme Court in 1992, elected to a full term on the Court In 1994 and elected Chief Justice in 2000.

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