Anita Earls

ON THE ISSUES

• Committed to protecting our democracy and future elections

WHY THIS RACE MATTERS

• Must defend seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court
• This race is a must win in order to restore fair courts and flip the balance of power on the North Carolina Supreme Court by 2028 .
• This race will have major implications on North Carolina’s, and our nation's, environment but also will be paramount to the Supreme Court's ability to check the state legislature's anti-democracy, anti-climate agenda.

CANDIDATE BACKGROUND

Anita Earles is running for reelection to the North Carolina Supreme Court. Before taking office in 2019, she spent more than 30 years representing clients in a wide variety of civil rights cases including voting rights, school desegregation, and employment discrimination matters. She tried numerous cases in both State and Federal courts, including criminal jury trials and complex federal civil rights litigation.

She is the founder of the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, a nonprofit dedicated to advancing racial and social justice through legal advocacy, where she served as Executive Director for a decade. She was Director of Advocacy at the Julius Chambers Center for Civil Rights at UNC Law School, and directed the Voting Rights Project of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. In 1998, President Bill Clinton appointed her to serve as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division. She has also served on the North Carolina State Board of Elections, the North Carolina Equal Access to Justice Commission, and Co-Chaired Governor Cooper’s Task Force on Racial Equity in Criminal Justice.