James Stuart, Jr.

James Stuart, Jr. is a 2004 graduate of the University of Colorado School of Law, where he was elected to Order of the Coif and served as associate editor of the University of Colorado Law Review. Stuart obtained his Master’s degree in English Literature from the University of Colorado in 2001, and a B.A. in English and Philosophy, magna cum laude, from UNC-Wilmington in 1995. After completing his law degree, Stuart served as a law clerk for Judge William J. Zloch, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida from 2004 to 2006. He then clerked for Judge (now Chief Judge) Mary Beck Briscoe of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals from 2006 to 2007. From 2007 to 2010, Stuart maintained an active litigation practice with Steptoe and Johnson LLP in Washington, D.C. In September 2010, Stuart and his family returned to his native North Carolina, and he presently serves as a law clerk to the Honorable Patricia Timmons-Goodson of the Supreme Court of North Carolina.

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