Source: NEWS & OBSERVER, 1/25/19


The chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court announced his plans Friday to retire next month, paving the way for a 6-1 Democratic majority on the state’s highest court. Mark Martin is the longest-serving justice now on the court, having first been elected in 1999. According to a press release from the North Carolina Judicial Branch, he is leaving to become the dean of the law school at Regent University, a Christian school in Virginia. “It has been the highest of honors to serve the people of North Carolina as their Chief Justice,” Martin said in a written statement.

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