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Anita Earls (Anita Sue Brooks) was born on 20 February, 1960 in Seattle, Washington, U.S., is an American judge (born 1960). Discover Anita Earls's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 64 years old?

Popular As Anita Sue Brooks
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Age 64 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 20 February, 1960
Birthday 20 February
Birthplace Seattle, Washington, U.S.
Nationality United States

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Her husband is Jonathan Hodgkiss (1982–2003) Charles D. Walton (2009–present)

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1960

Anita Earls (born February 20, 1960) is an American civil rights attorney who has served as an associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court since 2019.

She previously served as the executive director of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, as well as a deputy assistant attorney general in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice during the Clinton administration.

1988

Following her graduation from Yale Law School, in 1988 Earls was hired by James Ferguson II to join Ferguson, Stein, Watt, Wallas, Adkins & Gresham where she practiced civil rights litigation.

1998

In 1998 Earls was appointed by President Bill Clinton to serve as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.

2000

After serving as director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights' voting rights project (2000-2003) and as director of advocacy at the University of North Carolina Center for Civil Rights (2003-2007), in 2007 she founded the Southern Coalition For Social Justice (SCSJ) in Durham, NC, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.

2017

There she served as SCSJ's founding executive director, stepping down in 2017 to run for Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.

While at SCSJ, Earls represented clients in notable voting rights lawsuits, including serving as lead plaintiffs' attorney in North Carolina v. Covington, a landmark case that the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed in 2017, which resulted in 28 of North Carolina's state house and senate districts being deemed unconstitutional racial gerrymanders.

2018

On November 6, 2018, Earls defeated Republican incumbent Justice Barbara Jackson in a three-candidate election to win a seat on the state's highest court.

Earls grew up in Seattle, Washington.

Her parents relocated there because Missouri banned interracial marriage (Earls's mother is white, her father is black).

Earls and her brother were both adopted.

Earls is a graduate of Williams College and Yale Law School.

Attending Williams College, where she majored in political economy and philosophy.

Upon graduation Earls received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to study the role of women in Ujamaa villages in Tanzania, but her time abroad was cut short by multiple bouts of malaria.

She subsequently moved to England, worked in a solicitor's office, and married her first husband.

Three years later she returned to the United States and attended Yale Law.

A federal court then ordered a special master to redraw the districts' boundaries for the 2018 election, where under the new maps, state Democrats broke the legislature's nearly decade-long Republican supermajority.

Earls has taught at Duke University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Maryland.

Following her election to Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, Earls has written numerous opinions of significance on issues such as the North Carolina Racial Justice Act, the maintenance of privacy rights associated with warrantless searches, and media defamation suits.

2019

In a 2019 campaign speech Newby referred to his colleague Earls, saying "In 2018, the Left put $1.5 million to get their 'AOC' person on the court," and in 2022 Newby pushed out the Commission's chair days after the chair reminded state judges of the Code of Judicial Conduct's prohibited political conduct.

Anita is married to Charles D. Walton, a native of Raleigh, North Carolina.

She has two children and one grandchild.

2020

On June 9, 2020, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper appointed Earls as the co-chair of North Carolina's Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice.

The Task Force, convened in the wake of the murder of George Floyd, has begun issuing recommendations such as banning choke holds, suggesting that law enforcement agencies implement "duty to report" rules regarding excessive force, and requiring North Carolina to include information on race in its data reporting.

The work of the task force is ongoing.

Citing unnamed sources, the Washington Post reported that Earls was among the short-list of candidates under consideration by the Biden administration for nomination to the United States Supreme Court to replace retiring Justice Breyer.

Ultimately, Biden nominated District Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to fill the vacancy.

On August 29, 2023 Earls filed a lawsuit in Federal court (Earls v. North Carolina Judicial Standards Commission, et al., U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, No. 23-cv-00734) accusing North Carolina's judicial ethics commission of launching an investigation into her that stifles her First Amendment-protected criticism of the lack of diversity in the state's courts, stemming from a Law360 interview in which she discussed potential "implicit biases" among her colleagues, a lack of Black law clerks being hired, and how the court's new conservative majority had disbanded a commission tasked with examining racial and gender inequality in the judicial system.

The North Carolina Judicial Standards Commission is charged by statute with investigating anonymized complaints of judicial misconduct.

Six of its fourteen members, including its Chair and Vice Chair, are appointed by the Chief Justice of the North Carolina State Supreme Court, currently Chief Justice Paul Newby (R).