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Robert P. Trivette

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Robert P. Trivette
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North Carolina 1st Judicial District
Tenure
Present officeholder

Education
Bachelor's
Virginia Intermont College, 1981
Law
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1989
Graduate
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill


Robert P. Trivette is a district court judge for the 1st Judicial District, which presides over Camden, Chowan, Currituck, Dare, Gates, Pasquotank, and Perquimans counties of North Carolina.[1] He was appointed to the bench in September 2009 to fill the unexpired term of J. Carlton Cole.[2] Trivette was then elected to a full four-year term in November 2010. Trivette was re-elected to the 1st Judicial District Court in 2014, winning a term that expired on December 31, 2018.[3][4]

Elections

2014

See also: North Carolina judicial elections, 2014
Trivette ran for re-election to the 1st Judicial District Court.
General: He was unopposed in the general election on November 4, 2014. [4] 

2010

Trivette was elected to the 1st Judicial District Court after running unopposed.[5]

See also: North Carolina judicial elections, 2010

Education

Trivette received his undergraduate degree from Virginia Intermont College in 1981, a graduate degree in journalism from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law in 1989.[2][6]

Career

Before he joined the court, Trivette worked as an assistant district attorney in Dare County from 1991 to 2003. He also practiced law with the firm,Vandeventer Black, LLP in Kitty Hawk and was a judicial clerk for Judge Gerald Arnold of the North Carolina Court of Appeals.[2]

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