ABOUT PATRICIA TIMMONS-GOODSON
Published: Wed, Feb. 08, 2006 12:00AM
Modified Wed, Feb. 08, 2006 03:11AM
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Timmons-Goodson earned her undergraduate degree from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1976. Three years later, she received her law degree there. She then went to work as a prosecutor in Cumberland County. In 1984, at 29, she was appointed to the District Court bench in Cumberland County. In 1997, she was appointed to the N.C. Court of Appeals. She served nine years on the appeals court.
Timmons-Goodson retired from the N.C. Court of Appeals last fall. But she said Tuesday, "I thought I had completed my service to North Carolina. Governor Easley offered what my family and I viewed as the opportunity of a lifetime. My husband, sons and I could not decline."
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