Local figure
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
1945– · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗
2 works about Joe Hackney are indexed here, as is one work by Hackney.
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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 work describes service in the North Carolina General Assembly and politics and government in Orange, Chatham and Moore counties across the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries.
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. Topics include newspaper and periodical publishing in the state, civil rights and the Chapel Hill Committee for Open Business, political activists in the town, and writers including Gail Godwin, Leon Rooke and Jonathan Williams.
Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Hackney, Joe, 1945-.
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Picture: Joe Hackney, official portrait, 2011. Public domain. Official portrait, North Carolina General Assembly; via Wikimedia Commons
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