Ashe County Republican Party to Hold Lincoln Day Dinner Friday, May 4, 2007

Keynote Speaker to Be Former N.C. Supreme Court Justice Robert F. Orr, Republican Candidate for Governor

The Ashe County Republican Party will hold its annual Lincoln Day Dinner on Friday, May 4, at 6:00 p.m. at Greenfield Restaurant. The keynote speaker will be Justice Robert F. Orr, former Associate Justice on the North Carolina Supreme Court and a current Republican candidate for governor in 2008.

Justice Robert F. Orr retired on July 31, 2004 after 18 years of service to the citizens of North Carolina as an Associate Justice on the N.C. Supreme Court and as a Judge on the N.C. Court of Appeals. Since retiring from the bench, Justice Orr has served as the Executive Director and Senior Counsel for The North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law, a nonprofit, public interest legal organization based in Raleigh. He also serves as an adjunct professor at the UNC School of Law, where he teaches a seminar on the North Carolina State Constitution. Previously, he taught at the N.C. Central School of Law and the Campbell University School of Law.

Justice Orr earned both his undergraduate and his law degree from UNC-Chapel Hill and served three years in the U.S. Army. He is married with four children.

Prior to being appointed to the bench by Governor Jim Martin in 1986, Justice Orr was in private practice in Asheville. During his judicial career, he spent almost ten years as a member of the N.C. Supreme Court and eight years before that on the N.C. Court of Appeals. Justice Orr was elected statewide four times by the voters of North Carolina — twice to the Court of Appeals and twice to the Supreme Court.

Over the years, Justice Orr has served in a number of professional and civic positions, including his current service on the UNC School of Law’s Self Study Committee and the N.C. Central School of Law’s Board of Visitors. Previously, he served on the Chief Justice’s Innocence Commission; the Governor’s Crime Commission; Chair of the Southeastern Judicial Conference on Genetics in the Courtroom; Vice President of the N.C. Bar Association; and as member and Chair of the Secretary of the Interior’s National Park System Advisory Board.

In addition, Justice Orr is a member of the Board of Directors of the Wake County First Tee program, and a board member at the Central YMCA. He also participates in a mentoring program and serves as a vestry member at his church.

The Ashe County Republican Party Lincoln Day Dinner will be held Friday, May 4 at 6:00 pm at Greenfield Restaurant. The cost will be $8.00 and an additional donation to support local party efforts would be greatly appreciated.

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