RALEIGH — Campbell Law School Clinical Professor Rick Glazier, director of the Blanchard Community Law Clinic (BCLC), has been appointed by the North Carolina State Bar to a three-year term on the Disciplinary Hearing Commission (DHC), N.C. State Bar Executive Director Peter Bolac has announced.
The DHC hears and resolves disciplinary complaints against attorneys in North Carolina and enters orders of discipline in appropriate cases.
Glazier’s appointment is effective on July 1, 2025, and will end on June 30, 2028, according to the announcement. This is just one of the notable positions Glazier has held since joining Campbell Law as an adjunct professor in 1991.
Glazier became executive director of the North Carolina Justice Center in the summer of 2015 following his resignation from the N.C. General Assembly after 13 years representing Cumberland County in the N.C. House of Representatives from 2003-2015. He served as director of the N.C. Justice Center until December 2022 before joining Campbell Law full-time as director of the BCLC.
Glazier has received many legislative honors and awards, including the President’s Award from North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE), Common Cause’s Democracy Award, the Defender of Justice Award from the N.C. Justice Center, Outstanding Legislator Award from the N.C. Academy of Trial Lawyers and Legislator of the Year Award from numerous organizations. He also received the North Carolina Bar Association 2012 Citizen Lawyer Award and in 2015, he was awarded the Order of the Long Leaf Pine by then Gov. Pat McCrory.
Glazier is a former member of the Z Smith Reynolds Foundation Advisory Board, the UNC-TV Board of Trustees, the Chief Justice’s Committee on the Future of the Business Courts in North Carolina, the N.C. Public School Forum Board of Directors, the Cumberland County Children’s Advocacy Center Board and the Fayetteville Urban Ministry Board. Glazier also currently serves on North Carolina’s Actual Innocence Inquiry Commission and as a member of the Chief Justice’s Equal Access to Justice Commission as well as the Chief Justice’s Faith and Justice Alliance.
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