BUIES CREEK, N.C. – Campbell University’s Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law is pleased to announce that Professor Johnny Chriscoe has been named this year’s recipient of the Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award.

Professor Chriscoe is also the 2008 Campbell Law Student Bar Association Professor of the Year, his second such award since he began teaching full-time in 2000.

Chriscoe graduated summa cum laude and first in his class from Campbell University Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law in 1990. After a clerkship with the North Carolina Court of Appeals and several years in litigation practice, he returned to the law school in 1995 to serve as Associate Dean for External Relations and to teach part-time. In 2000, he began teaching full-time and presently teaches Torts I and II, Insurance Law, Trial Advocacy, Advanced Trial and Appellate Advocacy, Personal Property, and also coaches trial teams. Chriscoe serves on several law school committees and was appointed by Law School Dean Melissa Essary in 2007 to serve as Chair of the Committee on Community, Diversity and Student Life.

In service to the larger community and to the profession, Chriscoe accepted an appointment by Dean Essary in May of 2007 to serve on the Board of Directors for North Carolina Prisoner Legal Services, a non-profit, public service organization that provides post-conviction and civil legal services to the incarcerated population of North Carolina. In December of 2007, the board elected Chriscoe to serve as Vice President of the Board of Directors. He has also taught in various continuing legal education seminars, has published in the area of civil procedure, and is currently preparing an article in the field of insurance law.

Chriscoe is a member of the North Carolina State Bar, and is admitted to practice before North Carolina state courts, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina, and before the United States Supreme Court.

About Campbell Law School: Since its founding in 1976, the Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law at Campbell University has developed lawyers who possess moral conviction, social compassion and professional competence, and who view the law as a calling to serve others and create a more just society. The School has received two prestigious awards from the American Bar Association (ABA), the first for having the nation’s best Trial Advocacy Program, and the second for having the nation’s top Professionalism Program. In 2007, the Law School’s Moot Court Program was ranked 13th nationally among 196 ABA accredited law schools. Campbell Law boasts more than 2,900 alumni, including 1,900 who reside and work in North Carolina as well the best overall bar passage rate in NC for the past 16 years. For more information, visit law.campbell.edu.

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Media Contact: Ashley Arnold, 910.893.1812, arnold@law.campbell.edu