WataugaWatch: Easley Doubles the Number of Democrats on State Supreme Court

Friday, January 20, 2006

Easley Doubles the Number of Democrats on State Supreme Court

First the Guv appoints Democrat Sarah Parker to the Chief Justice seat on the state Supreme Court, to fill in for the retiring I. Beverly Lake. Then he appoints Democrat Pat Timmons-Goodson to Sarah Parker's associate justice seat, thus doubling with one appointment the number of Democrats on the state's high court. Plus Timmons-Goodson will be the first African-American woman ever to sit on the state's highest court.

Occasionally, the Guv comes through.

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J.W. Williamson was the founding editor in 1972 of the Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, which he edited until July of 2000. He has taught college classes in Appalachian history, cultural politics, and literature, and he has lectured widely on the pop-culture history of "Appalachia" in the American consciousness. His books include Interviewing Appalachia, Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films, and Hillbillyland: What the Mountains Did to the Movies and What the Movies Did to the Mountains. He has won the Thomas Wolfe Award given by the Western North Carolina Historical Society, the Laurel Leaves Award given by the Appalachian Consortium, a special Weatherford Award given by Berea College, and the Cratis Williams-James Brown Award given by the Appalachian Studies Association.
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