10/23/2026
Get to Know Our Candidates: Justice Anita Earls
Justice Anita Earls is a civil rights attorney who is running for re-election to the N.C. Supreme Court.
Justice Earls was first elected to the state Supreme Court in 2018. She has led a 30-year career in which she stood alongside people whose right to vote was denied, people who were mistreated at work, and the parents of children being denied equal educational opportunities.
She has served as a deputy assistant attorney general in the U.S. Department of Justice, and worked at the UNC Center for Civil Rights. In 2007, she founded the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, a nonprofit legal advocacy organization that partners with historically marginalized communities across the South.
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