Local figure
Beverly Scarlett grew up in Hillsborough, opened a law practice in a rented room there after passing the bar, and worked for years as an assistant district attorney for Orange and Chatham counties. She then took a new district court seat, becoming Orange County's first African American district court judge.
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January 2007 press release, dated the 19th, in which Governor Mike Easley appoints Beverly Scarlett to a District Court seat for Chatham and Orange counties, a judgeship the General Assembly added in 2006. One image.
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