BOB ORR

Bob Orr was licensed as an attorney in North Carolina in 1975 and practiced law in Asheville for eleven years before being appointed by Governor James G. Martin to the N.C. Court of Appeals. He served on the Court of Appeals from 1986 to 1994 and as a Justice on the N.C. Supreme Court from 1995 to 2004. He won four statewide partisan elections throughout his judicial career. His election to the Court of Appeals in 1988 made him the first Republican since 1896 to win a statewide judicial election in North Carolina. He retired from the Supreme Court in 2004 when he became the founding Executive Director of the N.C. Institute for Constitutional Law, litigating state constitutional issues. He taught as an adjunct professor at UNC School of Law for over twenty years and since 2010 has been engaged in the private practice of law.