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Born in Florence, South Carolina , Timmons-Goodson, the daughter of a U.S. Army officer, was raised on military bases in the United States and Europe. She attended the University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill , earning an undergraduate degree in speech in 1976 and a law degree in 1979 . She worked as a prosecutor and as a private attorney in Fayetteville until she was named a District Court judge in 1984 ; Timmons-Goodson was subsequently elected to four-year terms as a district judge in 1986 , 1990 , and 1994 . In 1997 , she was appointed by Gov. Jim Hunt to the North Carolina Court Of Appeals . She retired from that court in late 2005. On January 19, 2006, North Carolina Governor Mike Easley announced that he was appointing Judge Timmons-Goodson to the North Carolina Supreme Court to take the place of Associate Justice Sarah Parker . In February 2006, she became the first African American woman to sit on the Court, as a Democrat. She was elected by the voters to remain on the Court in November 2006 , defeating Judge Eric Levinson . Justice Timmons-Goodson is married and has two sons. She delivered the commencement address for Johnson C. Smith University on May 6, 2007. EXTERNAL LINKS |
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