George L. Wainwright, Jr.
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George L. Wainwright, Jr. (b. December 10, 1943) is an American judge, who recently retired as an Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.
Born in Wilson County, North Carolina, Wainwright earned a degree in political science as a Morehead Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before working in agribusiness and real estate in Wilson, North Carolina for over 15 years. He earned his law degree from Wake Forest University in 1984. Wainwright is also a veteran of the United States Coast Guard Reserve.
From 1986 to 1990, Wainwright practiced law in Morehead City and in Beaufort, North Carolina, at the firm Wheatly, Wheatly, Nobles & Weeks. In 1991, Governor Jim Martin named Wainwright to a North Carolina District Court judgeship. He became a Superior Court judge in 1994, and was finally elected to the state Supreme Court in 1998. He chose not to run for re-election in 2006.[1]
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