Joi Elizabeth Peake
Joi Elizabeth Peake is a federal magistrate judge for the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. She was first appointed to the court on February 5, 2012.[1]
Education
Peake received an undergraduate degree from Furman University in 1994 and a J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1998.[2][3]
Career
After receiving her law degree, Peake clerked for Judge James A. Beaty, Jr. In 1999, she went into private practice. Five years later, Peake became a career law clerk for Judge Beaty.[3]
Noteworthy cases
NC communication about voting identification law involves open records
- See also: Western District of North Carolina
In late March 2014, Magistrate Judge Peake ruled that thirteen state senators and representatives must make their email and other correspondence related to the North Carolina voting identification law public, in compliance with open records request. A coalition of groups, including the NAACP, League of Women Voters, ACLU and the United States Department of Justice, sued the legislators in order to obtain the records.[4]
Magistrate Judge Peake did allude to the fact that some of the information might not need to be made public based on attorney-client privilege. The groups had until April 7, 2014 to submit a report to the court on how the records will be categorized.[5]
See also
- United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina
- United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ United States Courts, "Judicial Milestones,: May 21, 2012
- ↑ Martindale.com, "Judge Profile: Joi Elizabeth Peake," accessed March 31, 2014
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Federal Bar Association - Middle District of North Carolina Chapter, "Following in Tradition While Charting a New Course: United States Magistrate Judge Joi Elizabeth Peake," April 2012
- ↑ The Huffington Post, "Republicans Must Turn Over Emails on North Carolina Voting Law, Federal Judge Rules," March 28, 2014
- ↑ Newsobserver.com, "Federal judge rules voter ID correspondence, emails are public records," March 27, 2014
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