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The 1776 Constitution of North Carolina says the following about the Justices of the Peace: "XXXIII. That the Justices of the Peace, within their respective counties in this State, shall in future be recommended to the Governor for the time being, by the Representatives in General Assembly; and the Governor shall commission them accordingly: and the Justices, when so commissioned, shall hold ...
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Born in Charlotte, North Carolina, Parker attended Meredith College, graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with an Education degree and served with the Peace Corps in Turkey from 1964 to 1966 before returning to Chapel Hill to earn a J.D. degree (1969).
When Mecklenburg County was created in 1762, Alexander was appointed as one of the county's first justices of the peace. That same year he became an officer in the local militia. In 1768 he was among the trustees who founded the town of Charlotte, and the following year he was elected to the North Carolina General Assembly.
New "District Courts" were proposed to succeed the recorder's courts and justice of the peace courts as standard local trial courts. [6] [7] Through the late 1950s and 1960s, North Carolina's judicial system was overhauled by legislation and constitutional amendment. [4] [5] District Courts were phased-in beginning in December 1966 in 23 ...
Ronnie Conner: [64] First African American male magistrate in Iredell County, North Carolina; John S. Leary (1892): [57] First African American male lawyer in Charlotte, North Carolina [Mecklenburg County, North Carolina] Clifton Johnson: [12] First African American male to serve as a District Court Judge in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina ...
Kathryn Overby: [19] First female judge in Alamance County, North Carolina; Anna Hyder Baucom: [49] First female magistrate in Anson County, North Carolina; Tami Mancos: [50] First female magistrate in Bladen County, North Carolina (2000) Tamika Jenkins (2006): [51] First African American female lawyer in Leland, North Carolina [Brunswick ...
A justice of the peace in Taos County, New Mexico, United States, hears a case (1941). A justice of the peace (JP) is a judicial officer of a lower court, elected or appointed by means of a commission (letters patent) to keep the peace. In past centuries the term commissioner of the peace was often used with the same meaning.