RALEIGH and BUIES CREEK, N.C. – Dean Melissa Essary has been named a vice president of the North Carolina Bar Association’s board of governors.

New vice presidents and members of the Board of Governors were formally elected during the 2008 Annual Meeting in Atlantic Beach, N.C. Those elected will also serve on the NCBA Foundation Inc. board of directors.

Serving one-year terms as vice presidents will be:

Justice Paul M. Newby of the N.C. Supreme Court

Senior Resident Superior Court Judge Beverly T. Beal of Lenoir

Chief District Court Judge Joseph E. Turner of Greensboro

Dean Melissa A. Essary of the Campbell University School of Law

Serving a two-year term as vice president will be C. Marcus Harris of Charlotte.

Newly elected members of the NCBA Board of Governors, serving three-year terms will be:

M. Ann Anderson, a private practitioner from Pilot Mountain

L. Neal Ellis Jr. of Hunton & Williams LLP in Raleigh

Kim W. Gallimore of Wyatt Early Harris Wheeler LLP in High Point

Kimberly Bullock Gatling ofSmith Moore LLP in Greensboro

Daniel F. McLawhorn who serves as an associate city attorney for the City of Raleigh

Paul A. Meggett who serves as associate general counsel for the UNC Health Care System in Chapel Hill

R. Michael Wells of Wells Jenkins Lucas & Jenkins in Winston-Salem

Chief Administrative Law Judge Julian Mann III of the Office of Administrative Hearings in Raleigh will fill the remaining two years of David Bohm’s term.

The vacancy was created this spring when Bohm was named assistant executive director of the North Carolina Bar Association.

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 2008, the Law School’s Moot Court Program was ranked 17th nationally among 196 ABA accredited law schools. Campbell Law boasts more than 3,000 alumni, including 2,000 who reside and work in North Carolina as well as the highest average overall passage rate on the July N.C. Bar Exam for the past 17 years. For more information, visit law.campbell.edu.