The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law will honor three alumni at the school’s annual Leadership and Awards Dinner on Oct. 13. The Distinguished Alumni Award will be presented to William D. Johnson and Wade H. Hargrove Jr. and the Outstanding Recent Graduate Award to Ashley H. Campbell.
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law will honor three alumni at the school’s annual Leadership and Awards Dinner on Oct. 13. The Distinguished Alumni Award will be presented to William D. Johnson and Wade H. Hargrove Jr. and the Outstanding Recent Graduate Award to Ashley H. Campbell.
Johnson, who received his law degree in 1982, is currently chairman, president and chief executive officer of Progress Energy Inc. and will become the director of the board, president and CEO of the new company formed when Progress Energy and Duke Energy officially merge. Before joining Progress Energy, he was a partner with the Raleigh office of Hunton & Williams, where he specialized in the representation of utilities. He also has served as a law clerk to Judge J. Dickson Phillips Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.
Hargrove, who received his law degree in 1965, is a senior partner in the Raleigh office of Brooks, Pierce, McLendon, Humphrey & Leonard, LLP. He has testified before congressional and legislative committees on issues involving corporate law, copyright law, satellite broadcasting, libel and slander, political broadcasting and public utility law. He regularly advises clients in mergers and acquisitions and has served as counsel in some of the nation’s largest media transactions. He also is chairman of the UNC Board of Trustees.
Campbell, who received her law degree in 2003, is an associate attorney at Ragsdale Liggett PLLC, in Raleigh, where she practices in the areas of civil litigation and legislative and executive representation. Before joining Ragsdale Liggett, she was tax counsel to the North Carolina General Assembly and served as committee counsel to the House Finance Committee. She previously was an attorney for Legal Aid of North Carolina, where she still does pro bono work. Campbell was named to Thomson Reuters’ 2009 and 2010 North Carolina Super Lawyers Rising Stars list, which is comprised of the state’s up-and-coming attorneys.
For more information about the recipients, see http://www.law.unc.edu/alumni/weekend/default.aspx.
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