Justice Anita Earls will be formally invested as associate justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina during a swearing-in ceremony in the Supreme Court courtroom on January 3.

WHO  
Justice Anita Earls

WHEN 
Thursday, January 3, 2:00 p.m. 

Media who would like to attend should arrive by 1:30 p.m. and should have credentials. WRAL will provide the pool camera. 

This event can be viewed on Facebook Live beginning at 2:00 p.m. 

WHERE 
Justice Building, Supreme Court of North Carolina, 2 East Morgan Street, Raleigh, NC 27601.

ABOUT 
Anita Earls founded and is the past executive director of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice. Previously, Earls served as deputy assistant attorney general for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Justice in the Clinton administration. Earls has also served on the Equal Access to Justice Commission and the N.C. Board of Elections. She has taught at Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of Maryland. She graduated from Williams College and earned her juris doctor (J.D.) from Yale Law School.