Practice Areas: Real Property; Probate; Estates.

Admitted: 1948, North Carolina; 1949, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of North Carolina; 1956, U.S. Supreme Court

Law School: Columbia University, J.D., 1947

College: University of North Carolina, A.B., 1941

Member: Wake County, North Carolina and American Bar Associations; North Carolina State Bar; North Carolina Association of Trial Lawyers.

Biography: Phi Beta Kappa. Editor, Columbia Law Review, summer session, 1947. Law Clerk to Justice Hugo L. Black, U.S. Supreme Court, 1947-1948. Associate City Attorney, Raleigh, North Carolina, 1955-1960. Chairman, State Board of Elections, 1962-1965. President, Wake County Bar Association, 1972.

Reported Cases: Cage v. Colonial Bldg. Co., Inc. of Raleigh, 337 NC 682 (1994).

Born: Raleigh, North Carolina, December 4, 1920