Legal Practice Hall of Fame Recipients

Inducted as General Practice Hall of Fame 1989-2018.

1989
Harold K. Bennett, Asheville
Joseph W. Grier Jr., Charlotte
Kenneth R. Hoyle, Sanford
Harvey A. Jonas Jr., Lincolnton
Lindsay C. Warren Jr., Goldsboro
Claud R. Wheatly Jr., Beaufort

1990
I. Murchison Biggs, Lumberton
Weston P. Hatfield, Winston-Salem
Martin Kellogg Jr., Manteo
Herbert H. Taylor Jr., Tarboro
Richard A. Williams Sr., Newton

1991
R. Lewis Alexander, Elkin
Heman R. Clark, Raleigh
E.P. “Sandy” Dameron, Marion
Fred B. Helms, Charlotte
Frank H. Watson, Spruce Pine

1992
Wade Edward Brown, Boone
William A. Dees Jr., Goldsboro
Louis W. Gaylord Jr., Greenville
Robert Leroy McMillan, Raleigh
William E. Poe, Charlotte
Oscar Edwin Starnes Jr., Asheville

1993
Edwin Osborne Ayscue Jr., Charlotte
William Lamont Brown, Pinehurst
Robert B. Byrd, Morganton
John R. Haworth, High Point
James W. Mason, Laurinburg
Ralph M. Stockton Jr., Winston-Salem

1994
B. Irvin Boyle, Charlotte
Landon B. Roberts, Asheville
William A. Johnson, Lillington
Grady B. Stott, Gastonia

1995
Louis A. Bledsoe Jr., Charlotte
Walter F. Brinkley, Lexington
James B. Garland, Gastonia
John R. Jordan Jr., Raleigh
Edward L. Williamson, Whiteville

1996
Stacy C. Eggers Jr., Boone
Annie Brown Kennedy, Winston-Salem
E. K. Powe, Durham

1997
Robert H. Burns Jr., Whiteville
Max. O. Cogburn, Asheville
W. Lunsford Crew, Roanoke Rapids
Wright T. Dixon Jr., Raleigh
Thomas Shull Johnston, Jefferson
J. Brian Scott, Rocky Mount
Gerald F. White Sr., Elizabeth City

1998
Garret Dixon Bailey, Burnsville
Julius L. Chambers, Charlotte
Herbert S. Falk Jr., Greensboro
Worth H. Hester, Elizabethtown
Dewey W. Wells, Elizabeth City

1999
John J. Burney Jr., Wilmington
Herbert L. Hyde, Asheville
Richard S. Jones Jr., Franklin
William A. Marsh Jr., Durham
Charles W. Ogletree, Columbia
David L. Ward Jr., New Bern

2000
James D. Blount Jr., Raleigh
Everette C. Carnes, Marion
William A. Johnson, Newland
J. William Russell, Asheville

2001
James M. Baley Jr., Asheville
George S. Daly Jr., Charlotte
Robert Epting, Chapel Hill
Tommy W. Jarrett, Goldsboro
Michael D. Levine, Chapel Hill
William A. Powell, Shallotte

2002
William Owen Cooke, Greensboro
Roy W. Davis Jr., Asheville
Walter Lewis Hannah, Greensboro
Wilber Morton Jolly, Louisburg
Mark West Owens Jr., Farmville
Horace E. Stacy Jr., Lumberton

2003
John W. Campbell, Lumberton
Charles D. Dixon, Hickory
Daniel W. Fouts, Greensboro
J. Troy Smith Jr., New Bern
Sydnor Thompson, Charlotte
Henry M. Whitesides, Gastonia

2004
John E. Davenport, Nashville
Samuel H. Johnson, Raleigh
William R. Rand, Wilson
George Rountree III, Wilmington
Russell E. Twiford, Elizabeth City
Marshall V. Yount, Hickory

2005
Henson P. Barnes, White Lake
Stephen E. Culbreth, Wilmington
Thomas G. Dill, Rocky Mount
M.H. Hood Ellis, Elizabeth City
John C.W. Gardner Sr., Mount Airy
Richard M. Hutson, II, Durham
William R. Sigmon, Hickory
Lonnie B. Williams Sr., Wilmington

2006
Robinson O. Everett, Durham
Clifton L. Moore, Burgaw
William G. Pfefferkorn, Winston-Salem
Rudolph G. Singleton Jr., Fayetteville
Robert Charles Soles Jr., Tabor City
E. Murray Tate Jr., Hickory

2007
Charles M. Davis, Louisburg
William Joslin, Raleigh
Malvern F. King Jr., Durham
George B. Mast, Smithfield
Cressie H. Thigpen Jr., Raleigh
Sharon A. Thompson, Durham

2008
Charles E. Burgin, Marion
Roy A. Cooper Jr., Nashville
Walter H. Jones Jr., Mooresville
James M. Kimzey, Brevard
H. Edward Knox, Charlotte
Sally Scherer, Raleigh

2009
J. Mac Boxley, Raleigh
Charles E. Clement, Boone
William Henry Holdford, Wilson
William P. Mayo, Washington
Bobby Burns McNeill, Raeford
Meyressa H. Schoonmaker, Winston Salem
Henry P. Van Hoy, II, Mocksville

2010
P.C. Barwick Jr., Kinston
David Reece Cockman, Raleigh
Orville D. Coward Sr., Sylva
James F. Morgan, High Point
Harold Lee Pollock, Burgaw
Eugene C. Thompson III, Warsaw

2011
John L Holshouser Jr., Salisbury
Richard M. Lewis Jr., Fayetteville
Ray C. Vallery, Fayetteville
Frederic E. Toms, Cary
Benjamin R Warrick, Clinton

2012
Eura D. “Ed” Gaskins, Raleigh
Thomas M. Grady, Concord
H. Houston Groome, Lenoir
John G. Ludlum, Warsaw
Charles H. McGirt, Lexington
J. Harold Seagle, Asheville

2013
Thomas H. Morris, Kinston
John S. “Jack” Stevens, Asheville
Allen G. Thomas, Wilson
Diane A. “Dee” Wallis, Raleigh
Thomas H. “Tom” Wellman, Roanoke Rapids
Charles R. Young Sr., Hickory

2014
Edmund I. Adams, Sparta
John Robert Hooten, Oriental
Boyd B. Massagee Jr., Hendersonville
Thomas C. Worth Jr., Raleigh

2015
Sheila M. Lambert, Asheville
John H. Vernon III, Burlington
Richard M. Wiggins, Fayetteville

2016
Lloyd Franklin Baucom, Charlotte
Charles Palmer Brown Sr., Albemarle
Robert J. Deutsch, Asheville
Ralph “Bo” McDonald, Raleigh

2017
Leto Copeley, Durham
Charles David Gantt, Asheville
Bobby Harold Griffin, Monroe
Thomas J. White III, Kinston

2018
Wesley Bailey, Winston-Salem
Nancy Black Norelli, Charlotte
Gary Vannoy, North Wilkesboro

2019
Dan Hartzog, Raleigh
R. Anderson “Andy” Haynes, Tyron
L.P. “Tony” Hornthal, Elizabeth City
Judge Timothy Wayne Smith, Kenansville

2020
Marshall A. Gallop, Jr., Rocky Mount
Robert C. Hunter, Marion
Glenn E. Ketner, Jr., Salisbury
Pender R. McElroy, Charlotte
Kenneth A. Moser, Winston-Salem

2021
Langdon M. Cooper, Gastonia
David R. Hillier, Asheville
Fred H. Moody Jr., Bryson City
Donald R. Vaughan, Greensboro

2022
Richard T. Boyette, Raleigh
Kenny Greene, Greensboro
Jody Moore, Raleigh
Sharon Lee Parker, Marion
W. Gerald Thornton, Raleigh

2023
Larry S. McDevitt, Asheville
William M. Claytor, Charlotte
Claud R. (Rob) Wheatly, III, Beaufort
Stephen L. Beaman, Wilson
Ronald P. Johnson, Greensboro
Joseph B. Cheshire, V, Raleigh
Fenton T. Erwin, Jr., Charlotte
Troy C. Homesley, Jr., Mooresville