Martha Geer

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Martha Geer
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Prior offices
North Carolina Court of Appeals

Education

Bachelor's

Bryn Mawr College, 1980

Law

University of North Carolina School of Law, 1983


Martha A. Geer was a judge on the North Carolina Court of Appeals. She was elected to this position in November 2002, and her last term would have expired in 2018.[1] She stepped down from the bench in May 2016 to head up the North Carolina office of national law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC.[2][3]

Education

Geer graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1980 with a degree in sociology and received her law degree from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1983.[1]

Career

Judge Geer began her legal career in 1983 as an associate with the law firm Paul, Weis, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City. She moved to North Carolina in 1986 to join the firm Smith, Patterson, Follin, Curtis, James, Harkavy & Lawrence, where she later became a partner. She became a founding partner of the firm Patterson, Harkavy & Lawrence, L.L.P. in 1991. She worked in this capacity until her election to the Court of Appeals in 2002.[1]

Awards and associations

  • Outstanding appellate judge, North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers
  • Dybwad Humanitarian Award, American Association of Mental Retardation
  • Board of Community Advisors, Hopeline, Inc.[4]

2010 election

Geer defeated Dean R. Poirer in her bid for re-election, winning 59.86% of the vote.[5]

Main article: North Carolina judicial elections, 2010

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Footnotes