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2008 ANNUAL CONFERENCE --  Awards

Justice Robin E. Hudson was born in DeKalb County, Georgia in 1952 and moved to Greensboro, NC with her family in 1966. She is married and has two grown children. Justice Hudson graduated from Page Senior High School, Greensboro, 1969; Yale University in 1973 with a BA degree in philosophy and psychology; and UNC School of Law in 1976. She was admitted to the North Carolina Bar in 1976 and practiced law in Raleigh and Durham until her election to the Court of Appeals in November 2000. She is the first North Carolina woman elected to the appellate court division without having been appointed first. She served on the NC Court of Appeals from January 2001 until December 2006. During that time, she helped organize and coordinate the Court of Appeals voluntary mediation program. She began her 8-year term on the Supreme Court in January 2007. Justice Hudson was a member of the founding committee for NCAWA in 1978 and has continued as an active participant in the organization since that time. Professional memberships include the NCBA and various committees; Wake County Bar Association. N.C. Association of Black Lawyers; National Association of Women Judges, American Bar Association Appellate Judges Conference; North Carolina Judicial Conference, Treasurer since 2002; Sir Walter Cabinet, life member; Women’s Forum of North Carolina since 2001; Member, Family Court Advisory Committee since 2001. Justice Hudson’s hobbies include tennis, running, reading, cooking, gardening, and traveling with her family.

President's Award

Women in Profession Committee

of the NC Bar Association

Judge of the Year Award

Judge Kimberly Taylor graduated from Duke University with High Honors in 1977 and from UNC-CH School of Law in 1981. She practiced law in Alexander County, North Carolina from 1981 until 1986 in a small general practice. She was a District Court Judge from 1986 to 2000 and has been a Superior Court Judge in the 22nd Judicial District since her appointment by Governor Hunt when a 3rd Superior Court Judgeship was created by the legislature in her district in 1999. She was subsequently reelected to an 8-year term which expires in December 2008. Judge Taylor was the first female judge in the district in either court. She is married and has 3 children - ages 23, 21 and 9. Judge Taylor has been NCBA Vice President, Chair of the Education Committee for District Court Judges and has served for many years on the AOC Judicial Forms Committee. She lives on a 44 acre farm in Alexander County and raises Arabian horses in her "spare time."

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