James A. Wynn, Jr.

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James Andrew Wynn, Jr. (born March 17, 1954) is an American jurist, currently a judge on the North Carolina Court of Appeals.

Born in Robersonville, North Carolina, Wynn holds degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A., 1975; Marquette University Law School, J.D., 1979 and University of Virginia School of Law, L.L.M., Judicial Process, 1995.

Contents 1 Military 2 Law practice 3 Judicial 4 American Bar Association 5 National Converence of Commissioners on uniform state laws 6 Other affiliations 7 Recent honors 8 Publications 9 External links

[edit] Military

Following law school, Wynn served in the Judge Advocate General's Corps (JAG) of the United States Navy on active duty until 1983 and thereafter affiliated with the Navy Reserve. He is presently a certifed military judge and serves as the Commanding Officer of Navy Reserve Judicial Activity Unit which comprises all of the trial and appellate reserve judges for the Navy. Over the past 27 years, Wynn has held two other Commanding Officer billets, two Executive Officer billets, and was Staff Judge Advocate for Readiness Command Six in Washington, DC.

[edit] Law practice

After completing his active duty service in the Navy, Wynn worked as an appellate defense attorney for North Carolina for one year before practicing law as a partner in the law firm of Fitch, Butterfield & Wynn in Wilson and Greenville, North Carolina.^{[citation needed]} He concentrated in civil litigation, real estate and appellate litigation.

[edit] Judicial

In 1990, Wynn was elected in a statewide contest to fill an unexpired term of two years on North Carolina Court of Appeals in 1990; he was reelected to eight-year terms in 1992 and 2000. In 1998, Governor Jim Hunt appointed Wynn to the North Carolina Supreme Court but he lost the election to retain his seat and returned to the Court of Appeals by appointment.

[edit] American Bar Association

Wynn is chair-elect of the Judicial Division, the Appellate Judges Conference representative in the House of Delegates and a commissioner on the Joint Commission to Evaluate the ABA Model Code of Judicial Conduct. He formerly served as Chair of the Appellate Judges Conference and as Chair of the Working Group on First Amendment and Judicial Campaign Speech.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] National Converence of Commissioners on uniform state laws

Wynn served for six years on the conference's Executive Committee and numerous drafting committees including the Revised Uniform Arbitration Act; Revised Tort Apportment Act; Genetics Discrimination Act. He currently serves on the Scope and Program Committee.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Other affiliations

Wynn is vice-chair of the Board of Directors for the Justice at State Campaign in Washington, DC. He is a member of the American Law Institute and serves on the board of the American Judicature Society. He chaired the North Carolina Bar Association Brown v. Board of Education 50th anniversary celebration. He is a past trustee of the North Carolina State Bar IOLTA committee and a past trustee for the Pitt Community College Board.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Recent honors

Honored by the Marquette University Law School as its 2002 Hallows Fellow and Visiting Scholar", Marquette University as a whole honored him in 2004 with its "All University Alumni Merit Award."^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Publications

Judging the Judges, Marquette University Law Review, 86 Marq.L.Rev. 753, Spring 2003

Military Courts and the All Writs Act: Who Supervises the Military Justice System?, Judges Journal, American Bar Association, Vol. 45, No. 3.

Selection of State Judges, 22 U.Tol. L. Rev. 287, Winter 2002

Judicial Diversity: Where Independence and Accountability Meet, 67 Alb. L. Rev –, 2004

Ground to Stand on: Charles Hamilton Houston’s Legal Foundation for Dr. King, 9 N.C. Bar. J. (2004).

Critics, Apologists, and Revisionists: Transparency and Other Virtures of Brown’s Footnote Eleven – Work in Progress, completion by Summer, 2007.

President Bill Clinton nominated Judge Wynn to become the first African American to serve on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in both 1999 and 2000. The Senate did not conduct hearings for any of the nominees for the 4th Circuit during the tenure of President Clinton.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] External links

• Official biography