Mark Martin (judge)

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Mark D. Martin is the Senior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. With over fifteen years of service in the North Carolina judiciary, Martin is the only active member of the state judiciary with experience on the Supreme Court of North Carolina, the North Carolina Court of Appeals, and the North Carolina Superior Court. At the time of his installation in 1999, he was the youngest Supreme Court Justice in North Carolina history. He was also the youngest person ever elected to the state Court of Appeals.^[1]

1 Education
2 Career
3 Professional Involvement
4 References

[edit] Education

Martin received his J.D. degree, with honors, at the University of North Carolina School of Law and received a B.S. degree, summa cum laude, from Western Carolina University. He also has a Master of Laws (LL.M.) Degree in Judicial Process from the University of Virginia. During law school, Martin served as Editor-in-Chief of the North Carolina Journal of International Law & Commercial Regulation and was inducted into the Davis Society.

[edit] Career

After graduating from law school, Martin served as a judicial law clerk to United States District Judge Clyde H. Hamilton. Following his clerkship, Martin practiced law at the McNair Law Firm in Raleigh, North Carolina. He then served as Legal Counsel to James G. Martin, the Governor of North Carolina, until his appointment in 1992 as Resident Superior Court Judge in Pitt County, North Carolina. From 1994 to 1999, he served as a Judge on the North Carolina Court of Appeals. He has served as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of North Carolina since January 1999, and has served as the Senior Associate Justice since February 2006. He was re-elected to an eight-year term in November 2006.

Martin has served on the adjunct faculty at Duke University School of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law, and North Carolina Central University School of Law.

[edit] Professional Involvement

Martin has served on a number of entities within the American Bar Association (ABA), including the Advisory Commission to the World Justice Project, the Executive Committee of the Appellate Judges Conference, the Coalition for Justice, the Commission on State Court Funding, the John Marshall Award Review Committee, and The Judges’ Journal Editorial Board. He served as Chair of the ABA Judicial Division Program Committee in 2007-08. Martin has also been active within the Appellate Judges Education Institute (AJEI), serving as both a member and Chair of the Program Planning Committee.

Martin has assisted the North Carolina Bar Association in a number of ways, serving as Vice-President from 2000 to 2001 and participating as a member of the Litigation Section Council, the Strategic Planning and Emerging Trends Committee, the Minorities in the Profession Committee, the Committee for the Brown v. Board of Education 50th Anniversary Program, and the Multidisciplinary Practice Task Force.

Martin has served on various boards and commissions, including as Chair of the Chief Justice’s Commission on the Future of the North Carolina Business Court, Secretary of the North Carolina Judicial Conference, and Co-Chair of the North Carolina Judicial Conference Legislative Liaison Committee. He also served as a member of the Legislation and Law Reform Committee of the North Carolina Conference of Superior Court Judges, the North Carolina Council for Women, and the Board of Directors of the University of North Carolina Law Alumni Association.