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Legal Elite 2015
FAMILY WINNER
Kimberly Bryan
Cheshire Parker Schneider & Bryan PLLC, Raleigh
Vita: 56; born in High Point; bachelor’s from N.C. State University and law degree from Campbell University; husband and two children.
What she’d be if not a lawyer: I would like to be Judy Smith, the Washington, D.C.-based crisis-management consultant about whom the ABC TV series Scandal is based. I would be a great crisis manager and spin doctor.
Favorite place: The beach house at Emerald Isle. Pulling up to Shackleford Banks or Bear Island. Stand-up paddleboarding in Bogue Sound. Kayaking though the marsh grass. Biking and walking everywhere.
Hero: My grandmother, Gladys Magnolia. She had a professional career in a time when women didn’t do such radical things. She was a vivacious, gutsy woman. She liked a schnapps every now and again, and sometimes a well-timed cuss word slipped out. She always looked like a magazine ad, dressed in Chanel suits, perfectly coiffed. To her, barriers were just something to crawl over or bust through.
FAMILY
WINNER: Kimberly Bryan, Cheshire Parker Schneider & Bryan PLLC, Raleigh; Carole R. Albright, Rossabi Black Slaughter PA, Greensboro; W. Lee Allen III, Colombo, Kitchin, Dunn, Ball & Porter LLP, Greenville; Marcia H. Armstrong, The Armstrong Law Firm PA, Smithfield; George W. “Trey” Aycock III, George W. “Trey” Aycock III PLLC, Greensboro; Donald L. Beci, Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP, Raleigh; Shelby Duffy Benton, Benton Family Law, Goldsboro; Robert S. Blair Jr., Essex Richards PA, Charlotte; Heidi C. Bloom, Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP, Raleigh; Jenny Bradley, Cheshire Parker Schneider & Bryan PLLC, Raleigh; Laura B. Burt, Burt & Cordes PLLC, Charlotte; Charles W. Clanton, Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP, Raleigh; Cary Close, Cary Close Family Law, Raleigh; Charles W. Coltrane, Coltrane & Overfield PLLC, Greensboro; Michelle D. Connell, Cranfill Sumner & Hartzog LLP, Raleigh; Joslin Davis, Allman Spry Davis Leggett & Crumpler PA, Winston-Salem; Paul A. DeJesse Jr., Hatcher Law Group PC, Charlotte; William K. Diehl Jr., James McElroy & Diehl PA, Charlotte; Christine S. Eatmon, Eatmon Law Firm, Wake Forest; David W. Erdman, Erdman and Hockfield LLP, Charlotte; Jonathan D. Feit, James McElroy & Diehl PA, Charlotte; Marilyn Feuchs-Marker, Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP, Greensboro; Janet Gemmell, Cape Fear Family Law, Wilmington; Howard L. Gum, Gum, Hillier & McCroskey PA, Asheville; Dorian Gunter, Harkey Lambeth & Gunter LLP, Charlotte; Monica R. Guy, Bell, Davis & Pitt PA, Winston Salem; Constance A. Harris, Benson, Brown & Faucher PLLC, Greensboro; J. Gregory Hatcher, Hatcher Law Group PC, Charlotte; Penelope L. Hefner, Sodoma Law PC, Charlotte; Elizabeth T. Hodges, Horack, Talley, Pharr & Lowndes PA, Charlotte; David E. Holm, Cheshire Parker Schneider & Bryan PLLC, Raleigh; Jill Jackson, Tharrington Smith LLP, Raleigh; Robert Paul Jenkins, The Graham Nuckolls Conner Law Firm PLLC, Greenville; Stephanie T. Jenkins, Gailor Hunt Jenkins Davis & Taylor, Raleigh; Afi Johnson-Parris, Ward Black Law PA, Greensboro; Heather D. Kaemmer, Sullivan & Snow PLLC, Jacksonville; Kyle W. LeBlanc, Hatcher Law Group PC, Charlotte; Jillian E Mack, Ellis Family Law PLLC, Durham; Jeffrey E. Marshall, Marshall & Taylor PLLC, Raleigh; Justin L. Mauney, Wake Family Law Group, Raleigh; Patrick S. McCroskey, Gum, Hillier & McCroskey PA, Asheville; Kate Bowles Miller, Miller Bowles Law, Charlotte; Barbara R. Morgenstern, Barbara R. Morgenstern PLLC, Greensboro; LeeAnne Quattrucci, LeeAnne Quattrucci PA, Wilmington; Mark Riopel, Hamilton Stephens Steele & Martin PLLC, Charlotte; Lee S. Rosen, The Rosen Law Firm, Raleigh; Mariana G. Russell, Barefoot Family Law, Raleigh; Linda B. Sayed, Block, Crouch, Keeter, Behm & Sayed LLP, Wilmington; Jim Siemens, Siemens Family Law Group, Asheville; Courtney Hamer Smith, Hatcher Law Group PC, Charlotte; Tonya Graser Smith, Burt & Cordes PLLC, Charlotte; Nicole H. Sodoma, Sodoma Law PC, Charlotte; Ketan P. Soni, Hull & Chandler PA, Charlotte; Robin J. Stinson, Bell, Davis & Pitt PA, Winston-Salem; Rose H. Stout, Smith Debnam Narron Drake Saintsing & Myers LLP, Raleigh; Alice C. Stubbs, Tharrington Smith LLP, Raleigh; Elise M. Whitley, Tash & Kurtz PLLC, Winston-Salem.
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