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Joe Hackney

Joe Hackney has practiced law in Chapel Hill with Bob Epting since 1974, after serving as an assistant district attorney in Orange and Chatham counties from 1971 to 1974. He served 32 years in the North Carolina House of Representatives, including service as Speaker from 2007 to 2011, before retiring from the House in 2012.

Source: Epting and Hackney, Attorneys at Law: Joe Hackney

Library of Congress name authority: Hackney, Joe, 1945- ↗

2 indexed records are connected with this person, and the index includes one work by Joe Hackney.

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Joe Hackney papers, 1981-2012

Hackney, Joe, 1945- · 1981

Political papers of Joe Hackney, born 1945, spanning 1981 to 2012 and amounting to roughly 50,000 items across seventy five linear feet in the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 70128. The headings descri…

UNC

Robert V. N. Brown papers, 1958-1999.

Brown, Robert V. N. · 1958

Robert V. N. Brown published the North Carolina Anvil, and his papers, about 6,800 items in ten linear feet from 1958 to 1999, belong to the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5312. The headings follow ne…

UNC

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  1. Joe Hackney serves as an assistant district attorney in Orange and Chatham counties After clerking for Justice Frank Huskins of the state Supreme Court, Joe Hackney worked as an assistant district attorney in Orange and Chatham counties from 1…Search the index · Epting and Hackney, Attorneys at Law: Joe Hackney
  2. Joe Hackney and Bob Epting begin practicing law together in Chapel Hill Joe Hackney began practicing law in Chapel Hill with Bob Epting in 1974, handling family law and civil litigation in the courts of Orange and surrounding count…Search the index · Epting and Hackney, Attorneys at Law: Joe Hackney

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