RALEIGH – The lineup of speakers for the upcoming Craven-Everett American Inn of Court meetings include the Chief Justice of the Eastern Bank of Cherokee Indians Supreme Court, an N.C. Supreme Court Justice and the North Carolina State Auditor, Campbell Law School Dean J. Rich Leonard has announced.
Chief Justice of the Eastern Bank of Cherokee Indians Supreme Court Bradley Letts ‘19 will be the guest speaker for the Thursday, Feb. 19, meeting. Letts graduated with an LL.M. degree in International Legal Studies earned through a collaboration between Campbell Law and Nottingham Law School in the United Kingdom. In 2024, Justice Letts resigned his position as Haywood County Senior Resident Superior Court Judge to accept his current appointment. Letts will discuss the complex interplay among tribal, federal and state laws during the meeting.
On Wednesday, March 18, North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Trey Allen will speak on hot issues involving state constitutional law. And Campbell Law alumnus and N.C. State Auditor Dave Boliek ’97 will present on the expanded role of his office in overseeing state government at the Thursday, April 16, meeting.
All of the programs begin with networking at Taverna Agora at 6 p.m. followed by a catered dinner in the Law School Foyer at 7 p.m. and a program in the Dean’s Conference Room at 8 p.m.
Recent past speakers include N.C. Attorney General Jeff Jackson and Wall Street Journal reporter and author Valerie Bauerlein, who wrote “The Devil at His Elbow: Alex Murdaugh and the Fall of a Southern Dynasty.”
The Craven-Everett American Inn of Court is a prestigious collection of leading judges, lawyers and law students primarily composed of members of the Wake and Durham county bars. The Inn was originally founded as the Braxton Craven American Inn of Court in 1993. The mission of the American Inns of Court is to foster excellence in professionalism, ethics, civility and legal skills.
Campbell Law took over as the official law school sponsor of Craven-Everett American Inn of Court in 2019, when Leonard was elected to serve as president and the Inn formally switched its affiliation from Duke Law School to Campbell Law.
The other members of the Inn’s Executive Committee are: N.C. Court of Appeals Judge Donna Stroud ‘88, Deputy Director of the Land Loss Prevention Project Dawn Battiste and N.C. Museum of Art Foundation Contracts Administrator Jamie Herman ‘22. Stroud serves as vice-president, Battiste as treasurer and Herman as secretary.
Campbell Law full-tuition scholars are inducted as members of this Inn. First-year law students Ginger Evans, Lauren Resor, Aaron Walls and Gusty Vouk are among the scholars who have been accepted to the Inn.
It is an invitation-only group, and is named after two celebrated former judges in North Carolina: Judge Braxton Craven of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, as well as Judge Robinson O. Everett, who was the Chief Judge of the U.S. Military Court of Appeals. Members of the Inn of Court meet every month to listen to speakers, enjoy dinners, and to spend time together.
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