1. Cheri Lynn Beasley was born on February 14,1966 and is an American attorney and jurist who served as the chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court from 2019 to 2020 as well as an associate justice from 2012 to 2019.
17 Facts About Cheri Beasley
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Cheri Beasley was defeated by Paul Martin Newby in 2020.
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Cheri Beasley was the Democratic nominee in the 2022 United States Senate election in North Carolina.
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Cheri Beasley earned a Master of Laws from Duke University School of Law in 2018.
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Cheri Beasley spent her first years after law school as an assistant public defender in Cumberland County, North Carolina.
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Cheri Beasley was first appointed to the bench as a state district court judge by Governor Jim Hunt in 1999, and then elected in a 2002 election.
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Cheri Beasley served as a Judge in District 12 until her election to the Court of Appeals.
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In 2008, Cheri Beasley was elected to the North Carolina Court of Appeals, defeating incumbent Douglas McCullough by a 15-point margin.
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In December 2012, after four years on the Court of Appeals, Cheri Beasley was appointed to the North Carolina Supreme Court by Governor Beverly Perdue, filling the vacancy created by Justice Patricia Timmons-Goodson's retirement.
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Cheri Beasley was elected to a full eight-year term in 2014.
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Cheri Beasley ran for a full term as chief justice in the 2020 election, losing by 401 votes to Associate Justice Paul Martin Newby.
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In February 2021, various media outlets reported that Cheri Beasley was considering running in the 2022 US Senate election in North Carolina.
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Cheri Beasley launched her campaign on April 27,2021, and on May 17, she won the Democratic primary election.
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Cheri Beasley became the second black nominee who lost a seat in the US Senate since Harvey Gantt who was defeated on the other senate seat by Jesse Helms twice in 1990 and 1996.
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In 2014, Cheri Beasley was the featured speaker at Saint Augustine's University's Lyceum Leadership Speaker Series.
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Cheri Beasley was the commencement speaker to the 2018 class of University of Tennessee College of Law.
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Cheri Beasley was the keynote speaker at Samford University's Cumberland School of Law Black Law Students Association's 24th Annual Thurgood Marshall Symposium.