Carlisle Wallace Higgins (October 17, 1889 – October 9, 1980) was a North Carolina attorney and jurist. He was a native of

Alleghany County, North Carolina Alleghany County (
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. Higgins served in both houses of the

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before being appointed

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for the Middle District of North Carolina by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1934–1947). In 1946 he became a prosecutor for the war crimes trials in

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. Higgins later served as an associate justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court (1954–1974). He is among the longest-serving justices in the history of the North Carolina Supreme Court. Upon his retirement from the Court, he joined the law firm of Tharrington Smith, co-founded by his former law clerk, Wade Smith. He remained with the Raleigh-based firm until his death in 1980.Tharrington Smith
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