BUIES CREEK, North Carolina – Judge Donna S. Stroud, a two-time graduate of Campbell University, will deliver the Department of History, Criminal Justice, and Political Science’s Barden Lecture Feb. 17 at 7:30 p.m. in the Harris Teeter Auditorium at Maddox Hall.
A native of Kinston, Stroud earned a Bachelor of Arts in Government from Campbell in 1985 and a Campbell Law degree in 1988. During law school, she was a member of the Campbell University Law Review, a case summary writer for the Campbell Law Observer, a research assistant for Dean F. Leary Davis and Professor Thomas Anderson, and received the Branch Banking and Trust Estate Planning Award.
She also received a LLM degree from the Duke Law School in 2014.
She began her legal career in 1988 at the law firm Kirk, Gay, Kirk, Gwynn & Howell. She later worked for the Gay, Stroud & Jackson firm from 1996 to 2004. During that time, she also worked as the 10th Judicial District Court Arbitrator (1996-2004) and a Certified Superior Court Mediator (1997-2004).
In 2004, she was elected to the Wake County District Court (10th Judicial District), where she served as a judge until she was elected to the Court of Appeals in 2006. She was re-elected in 2014.
She and her husband, J. Wilson, live in North Carolina. They have two sons: Aaron and Isaac.