Martha A. Geer is an American attorney and jurist who served as a judge of the
North Carolina Court of Appeals.
Geer was born in
Grinnell, Iowa and spent most of her childhood in Virginia, where her parents were teachers. Geer attended
Bryn Mawr College
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and earned a degree in
sociology
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before earning a
Juris Doctor
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and one of several Doctor of Law degrees. The J.D. is the standard degree obtained to practice law ...
(J.D.) degree from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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in 1983. At UNC, she was the Managing Editor of the ''North Carolina Law Review''.
Geer worked in the area of
corporate law in
New York City
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and
North Carolina
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from 1986 to 2002, when she
was elected to an eight-year term on the North Carolina Court of Appeals as a
Democrat
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Politics
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*A member of a Democratic Party:
**Democratic Party (United States) (D)
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. She was re-elected in
2010
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.
On March 16, 2016, Judge Geer announced her intent to resign from the bench in mid-May, 2016, to join the firm of
Cohen Milstein
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.
Fayetteville Observer
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References
External links
Geer official campaign site
Official biographyJudgepedia entry
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North Carolina Court of Appeals judges
Bryn Mawr College alumni
University of North Carolina School of Law alumni
Living people
American women judges
People from Grinnell, Iowa
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women