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Labor & Employment Law Leadership

Officers

Chair
Bartina Lorick Edwards | The Law Office of Bartina Edwards
Immediate Past Chair
Joseph Smith Murray IV Smith Murray IV | Circle K Stores, Inc.
Secretary
Jennifer L. Bills | Patterson Harkavy LLP
Treasurer
Leann Marie Walsh | K&L Gates LLP
Vice-Chair
Linda Nicole Patino

Ex-Officio

Communities Manager
Kyle Ballantine | North Carolina Bar Association
NCBA Executive Director
Jason M. Hensley | North Carolina Bar Association
NCBA President
Kimberly H. Stogner | Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
NCBA President-Elect
Robert E. Harrington | Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson PA

Council Members

William Parker Barrett | Barrett Law Offices
Mary Isabelle Book | Legal Aid of NC
Angela Ingram Carmon | City of Winston Salem
Jill F. Cramer | NC Department of Labor
Kristen E. Finlon | Gardner Skelton PLLC
Murphy Horne Fletcher | McGuire Wood & Bissette PA
Dalton Blair Green | Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC
Marc E. Gustafson | Bell Davis & Pitt PA
Meredith Hamilton | Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak & Stewart PC
Sarah H. Negus | Moore & Van Allen PLLC
Christine A. Rodriguez | Law Office of Christine A. Rodriguez
Aretina Samuel-Priestley | O'Hagan Meyer PLLC
Leann Marie Walsh | K&L Gates LLP
Britney Weaver | Morningstar Law Group
Lawrence D. Wooden | Wooden Bowers, PLLC

Committee Leadership

CLE Committee Co-Chair
Jennifer L. Bills | Patterson Harkavy LLP
CLE Committee Co-Chair
Linda Nicole Patino
CLE Committee Co-Chair
Thomas Cullen Stafford | Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP
Communications Chair
Joseph Erik Hjelt | Kornbluth Ginsberg Law Group, P.A.
EEOC Liaison
Elizabeth Rader Rader | Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Ethics Committee Chair
Richard M. Klein | Legal Aid of NC
Law School Relations
Regina Worley Calabro | Campbell University Incorporated
Legal Aid Liaison
Richard M. Klein | Legal Aid of NC
Legislative Committee Chair
Haseeb Fatmi
Membership Committee Chair
Nicole Katherine Haynes | Gardner Skelton PLLC
Nominations Committee Chair
Joseph Smith Murray IV Smith Murray IV | Circle K Stores, Inc.
Paralegal Division Liaison
Alice L. Johnson | ABB
Pro Bono Committee Chair
Valerie L. Bateman | Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP
YLD Liaison
Jeremy Daniel Locklear | Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP