Newspaper Articles (Jan 1984)

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Lawyer
Gratified

Lawyer Put 2y2 Years Into District Challenge
By GAIL SJVIITH

Lawyer Leslie Winner chal-
lenged the system and won. It
took 2/2 years and perhaps 2,000
hours of work, but she won.

Winner questioned the legality
of seven N.C. House and Senate
districts, arguing they discrimi-
nated against minorities. Three
federal judges agreed with her in
a Friday ruling. The judges want

new districts drawn - including
those in Mecklenburg and, Cabar-
rus counties - to give minorities
a better chance of getting elected.

Winner didn't hide her delight
at the decision.

"Glee" was her first reaction,
she said Monday. "I went out to
dinner with some f riends. I
laughed a lot."

"We challenged the legalitY of
the apportionment of seven differ-

ent districts.... The court ruled
with us on all of them."

In her office at East Indepen-
dence Plaza, 16 cardboard boxes
marked "Gingles vs. Edmisten"
line the walls, proof of her work
on the case. The suit was filed in
September 1981.

"I do believe single-member
districts would be better for the
people of (Mecklenburg) county,"
she said. "Districts have worked

well on city council. The voters
Sgree with that."

Winner,'33, said the case inter-
ested her because she believes.in
Sovernment being accessible to all
people.

A friend, Lark Hayes, a lawyer
who worked with her for more
than three years at Legal Services
of Southern Piedmont Inc., said
Winner is drawn to both law and
politics.

"Generally, one often sees law-
yers that are either challenged by
law or the political nature of
law.... (Leslie) seems to be
fueled by that dual motivation.
She's a two-burner lawyer,"
Hayes said.

Winner started working with
lawyer Julius Chambers in 1981,
when the redistricting case came
up. She got the case because she

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Contlnued From precedlng page
had lobbied the General Assembly
earlier that year when she wai
working for Legal Servlces. She,
was trying to salvage state Medic-
aid benefits ordered cut by the

I Reagan adtninistration.
i "I yqs familiar with the legista-
iture. I basically understood -what
they were talking about," she
said.

She said she learned how to be
an effective advocate under a
mentor, U.S. District Judge James
McMillan.,She was his law clerk
in 1976-77. He taught her a pre-
carious balance between making
changes and making waves, shi
said.

t'I view him as a very wlse per-
s-on, at once courageous enough to
do what he thinks needs to be
done, but not inclined to rock the
boat any more than necessary todo what needs to be accbm-
plished," she said.

Judge McMillqn said he learned
from Winner as much as she
learned from him. "I'd claim her
for a daughter," he said. ,,She's

{o.ne s-9 many consistently.gooq
,things."
, She has spoken out against cuts
.in aid to the poor, lobbiJd for Eliz-
, abeth neighborhood concerns and
: last year was president of the N.C.
Asso'ciation of Women Attorneys.
An Asheville native, she in-
nounced for a state House seat as
a Democral. earlier this month.
Her older brother, Dennis, is a
statb senator f rom Buncombe
County.



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71\.C. Legislative Districts Ruled Biased
Judges: Black Yoting Strengrh Diluted

If it stands, the order could lead
to more black legislators, uncer-
tain political futures for some in-
cumbent legislators and confusion
over the May 8 primary.

Citing the I965 Voting Rights
Act, the judges ruled that in Ois-
tricts like Mecklenburg, where l6
candidates can run at-large for
eight seats, "black registere-d vot-
ers of that district (are) being sub-

Mectrrlenhurg's At-Large System Faulted
By KATHERINE WHITE,

KEN ALLEN
And KEN EUDY

Statt Wrire6

RALEIGH - Three federal
judges Friday ordered North Car-
ollna to redraw seven state House
and Senate districts, including
Mecklenburg's, because the dis-
tricts illegally dilute the strength
of black voters.

merged as a voting minority.,'
The court said multlirember

districts often,force blacks to vote
for a single candidate to increase
the impact of their vote, thus
"forfeiting by practical necessity
their right to vote for a full slati
of candidates."

The three-judge panel of 4th

See 7 LEGISL.{TM page 7,{

By KEN ALLEN, KEN EUDY
. And KATIIERINE WHITE

Staff Writers

Ambition and determination -qualities needed by successful pol-
iticians - haven't been enough
for I\{ecklenburg County blacks
who aspire to the legislature from
the state's most populous and ur-
banized county, according to a de-
cision filed Friday by a three-

judge federal panel.
The'problem, the judges said, is

that discrimination makes it too
difficult for blacks to win legisla-
tive seats under the current at-
large system.

- The solution, they said, might
be single.member districts -- a
form of district representatior,r
similar'to that used to elect Char-
lotte City Council members.

Under the plan now used to se-
lect Gerleral Assembly members,
candidates for the eight-seai
Meckleqburg House distiict run
at-large'and voters may vote for
all eight. The four state senators
who represent the Mecklenburg-
Cabarrus Senate district also aie
selected at-large.

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7 I\.C. Legislative Districts
Contlnued From Page lA

Circuit Court of ApPeals Judge
Dickson Phillips Jr. and District
Judges Earl Britt Jr. and Franklin
Dupree Jr. did not order legisla'
tors to create smaller districts
iepresented by one Person, often
called single-member districts.
Such districts would be similar to
the Charlotte City Council dis'
trlcts, where seven council mem'
bers represent seven areas of the
city.

Instead, the judges Save the
state seven weeks to come uP
with its solution. If the General
Assembly fails to act bY March
16, the court warned, the judges
will redistrict the areas.

The court ruling also could
have national civil rights implica-
tions, said Lani Guinier, a lawYer
with the NAACP Legal Defense
and Education Fund Inc.

For the second time, a court al'
lowed a challenge to two election
districts that the U.S. Justice De'
partment had concluded were
nondiscrimlnatory under Provi'
sions of the Voting Rights Act.

Under the act, the Justice De'
partment, in a process called "pre'
clearance," must review redis-
tricting plans in areas where, as
of November 1964, a literacY test
was required and less than half
the voting age population was
registered to vote.

In 1976, the U.S. SuPreme
Court said that such Preclearance
prevented minorities from inde-
penderrtly challenging redistrict'

ing plans, Guinier said."''d;i'r;"t in Louisiana, a court
similarly ruled that blacks could
independentlY challenge redis-
tricting in court even though the
Justice Department had ruled the
redistricting nondiscriminatory.

Friday's ruling, Guinier said'
"establishes a track record for the
Reagan Justice DePartment and it
ls a negative track record as far as

vigorous enforcement in discriml'
nation cases."

In Friday's ruling, Cabarrus
Countv is affected because it is in
the sa-me Senate district as Meck'
lenburg.

Also affected is the 2nd Senato'
rial district made uP of Bertie'
Chowan, Gates, Hertford, North'
ampton and Parts of Martin' Hali'
fax, Edgecombe and Washjngton
counties. The court invalidated
that single-member Senate district
in northeastern North Carolina
because the legislature split coun-
ties to avoid creating "an effective
black majority." That seat is held
bv ll-term Democratic Sen. J.J.
"-Monk" Hairington, who is
white.

In addition to Mecklenburg'
separate House districts in Wake,
Forsyth and Durham counties are
affected bY the rulinS' as well as
the joint House district made uP of
Edglcombe, Wilson and Nash
countles.

The case was filed two Years
ago on behalf of RalPh 9ingles Jr.
oi Gastonia and other N.C. black
voters. The NAACP Legal Defense

and Education Fund represented
the black voters. Leslie Winner'
an attorney for the plaintiffs' has
filed as a candidate for a Mecklen'
burg House seat.

"It's music to mY ears," Winner
said of Friday's ruling. "It's a sub-
stantial step forward in the ability
of black peoPle to ParticiPate
meaningfully in the political pro'.
cess."' Jim Wallace, special dePuty
state attorneY general who argued
the case, said no decision has been
made about an aPPeal, but some
paperwork has begun.

"I did some PrecautionarY re'
search earlY this week," Wallace
said.

"The rug began to sliP out from
under us," he said, when Section 2
of the federal Voting Rights Act
was amended to take out the
"smoking gun" Provision. The
judges'ruling focused on that por-
tion of the act: that the Plaintiffs
do not have to show the state in-
tended.to discriminate, only that
the effect of the state's redistrict-
ing was discriminatory.

The federal Panel said that the
state recentlY had made greater
efforts to involve blacks in the
election process but that the effort
was not enough.

But "the gaP has not been
closed, and there is of course no
guarantee that the effort will be
continued past the end of the Pre'
sent state administration," the
judges said.- 

Some legislators contacted late

The shaded areas in the maP show the
House districts and the

Friday said an aPPeal might not be
worthwhile.

striped areas

THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER Saturday, January ?8, 1984 7A

"At this Point I'm inclined to
abide by the court's decision and
redistrict (rather than appeal)' but
that is subject to further consul-
tation with the staff," said Sen.
Marshall Rauch, D-Gaston' co'
chairman of the Legislative Redis'
tricting Committee'

Rep. Louise Brennan, D'Meck'
lenburg and a member of the re-
districting panel, said, "I think an
appeal would just be PostPoning
the inevitable."

House SPeaker Liston Ramsey'
D-Madison, said he has asked the
attorney general's office and the
legislative counsel to draw uP al-
teinatives bY early next week.

"The first two Pages (of a 73'
pag,e decision) tell us what we
have done in the seven counties
we haven't done right," RamseY
said. "But theY haven't told us
how to do it."

In addition to creating single-
member districts, the legislators
coutcl also make snlaller m'rlti'

meinber districts in which one
district is PredominantlY black
and the other is PredominantlY
white, RamseY said.

The decision's immediate im'
Dact on the MaY 8 Primary is un'
i<nown, said state Elections Direc'
tor Alex Brock.

There can be no House or Sen'
ate elections f or Mecklenburg
seats and the other districts under
the current district lines, the court
sai0.

Mecklenburg Elections SuPervi'
sor Bill Culp said it would be diffi'
cult to trola the MaY 8 PrimarY
unless districts could be drawn bY

March l.
"We have to have time for ab'

sentee ballots, which are required
bv law. and we have to have time
f6r programming voting ma'

. chinei, wtrictr is verY comPli'
cated.'; Culp sald. "We maY end

up with a nrimarY in MaY for ev'
eivthine Uirt ttre House and Sen'
ati, and'then hold the legislative
primary in August or SePtember'
ithat rvoul<l he inl'8uess,"

show Senate districts that federal
judges ordered rbdrawn.

In Mecklenburg, the onlY
courity where House and Senate
districts were overturned, incum'
ben! legislators reacted to the rul'
ine with uncertainty.

btennan said r'edrawing dls'
trictb could throw RePs. Ruth
Easterling and Jo Graham Foster
into the iame district. Easterllng
liveJ in Myers Park, within a mile
of Foster, who lives near Freedom
Park. Brennan lives nearby in Dll'
worth.

"I have no ldea how the dls'
tricds will be drawn; we'll Just
have to sit tight," said Easterllng'
whd added that even if the courtt
order single-member districts' she

would run for a flfth term.
Fbster said she had no obJectlon

to the court ruling, and that lt
would not change her Plans.

Jim Richardson, a black Demo'
crat who lost the House seat bY

about 200 votes in 1982' aP
plauded the ruling.

"Mecklenburg has been Pretty
fair," said Richardson, who is has

filed for the House agaln.

Statf Mao BY JOAN BALOWIN



Mecklenburg County's SYstem

Of At-Large Yoting Is Faulted'
continued From Page lA elected to the city council of char' have run unsuccessfullv and no

The differences between the lotte, but nir.i in numbers ie' black now serves on tire Senate 
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*.tiioAr oi selecting ia*mat<Jrs motely proportional to their.per' delegation"' - I

and city council members is that, centage'oiifti iiiyt population," Aicording t.o court papers and I

under the council district plan, the judges wrote. interviews ivith lawyers and leg- I

two districts have a majority of .,ouri"ni iie*perioa lg45 to islators, there are at reast three I

black voters 1975, wien trr'e council *ii bnti"1''rdiuecklenburg: l

The judges pointed out that elected 
"ii-"i'fJg., 

tfacf.s .on.ti' ' o Eight House districts that I

lines coutd be drawn to create at tuted sli'!o'-;i-'i*-;;;b;;ril6. *oura-i.-..equivalent to district 
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i;; ffi;ruiority uii.[-Hor.. From lgTi]t981, when the coun- representatio-n 
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districts in Mecklenburg County cit was'eiect-eO-bqlliiilV at-large 'o 
Three.tfo.use districts' two of 

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and one majority btack senate dis- ana partiait!*uv'aiiiiiilr, uracfs which would be made un of rre- 
|trict. iod zs"d%-'oi tt'" oistrici dominantlv u'tac.x^11i9!!9:l:".i: 
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The votes of black people living seats . . . . " '- that would elect one representa' 
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in those potential districts have - Tl.r. iuAges compared thlt,iumR tive each' The third district would 
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been diluted, according to the in utact< iity iruri.ir ,eru"iiiiii be. .made. .r.p 9f pred.ominahtly 
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judges, because $re poie'ntiat ais. with blaJk "re-presentation in 
-inl 

white neighborhoods that would '

tricts have Ueen su6meig.a--it legiilative delegation. elect six reprsentatives'

larger multimember, predomi- "ln-tf,ii ..ir-,irty, o". black-citi' 
---J t*o House districts' onb of

nsntlywhltedistricts.zentptrii"rieii];'".t*i.o.inrsez)predominantlyblackneighbor-
The f ederal judges Friday tras 

'Ueen -eieiieO to the State hoods that would elect two rqpre'

stopped short of ordering district House J-nipiii.rtuiiu"t and one sentatives at'large' The other dis'

representation tor rvrec[ienuuie;s ur"ir. ciiiieri has been elected to trict would be predominantly

House and senare olstriCt.. the staie-i"n"ii irom trleckten- white and elect six represdnta' 
1" dil tiiJv i6"f,Lo wit-h-pleasure uurg County . . . . 'l tiv-e-s-at'large' .

on the effects that dtstrlct rcpre- "s.r#'l'tn.r'black citlzens had' : 'wttaterit 
ls 'done, the ,plan 

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sentation has had on the Charlotte previously run unsuccesstuttv ioi ITl.Cl::t^ bl1:It^,::.:q:,Xt-:.?t:'1; '

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u' r,E v,q^rv!!w 

;';l^ffiJ.;;j;; s.;;6 *einu., tunity "to. participate effectivelv
,,since world war II, blacks, (the tati rieo Alexander) in the political- processes and to

who now constitute 3l% of the served...- r*in -1g75 to 1980: elect candidates of their choice"'

;'#,i'";o;;i;;i;;: l;i."e 
-L;;; si;aa then, two black citizens the judses said. 

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ffiIt C. Con sid,ers AppeoL In: Red,istricriif'C,ase

Lo.sirrg Oneself

BY KEN ALLEN
Rahigh luralu

RALEIGH - Support Srew among N.C. legislative lead'
ers Monday to appeal a federal court's decision that seven
legislatlve districts violate federal voting rights law and
mu6t be redrawn.

The nearness of the May 8 primary elections and the
compllcations of redistricting contributed to the mood.
Alsoin evidence was resistance on the part of some legisla-
tors at the thouSht of being pushed around by the federal
courts.

"l'm gettinS tlred of the court system running the coun-
try," sald state Sen. Ken Royall, D-Durham, a member ol
the leglslrtlve leadership that will decide this week
whether to app€al.

In an oplnion issued Friday, a three-judge panel in the
U.S. 4th Judicial Circuit concluded that five House districts

and two Senate districts were drawn in such a way thal
"black registered voters (are) being submerged as a votinS'
minority."

The iudges gave the General Assembly untit March 16 to
draw new districts that concentrate the black vote and
allow black voters to "elect the candidate of their choice."

Mecklenburg's eight-seat House district and the four-
seat Senate district that includes MecklenburS and Cabar-
rus counties are among the districts the court said were
unfairly drawn.

The others are four House districts that represent For-
syth County (Winston-Salem), Wake County (Ralei8h),
Durham County (Durham) and Nash, Edgecombe and Wil-
son counties east of Raleigh, and a Senate district covering
all or part of nine counties in the northeast.

All but the northeasl Senate district are multimember
districts in which voters get to elect mOre than one person.

The northeast Senate district has only one senator, but the
judges found that the district line cuts through a large,
predominantly black area, minimizing the black majorlty.

If the state doesn't meet the judges'deadline in redraw-
ing district lines, the federal courts could do so, Redistrlct-
ing now would require a'special session oI the General
Assembly, which several members ssld Monday they aren't
eager to do with elections approaching and a one-month
budget session scheduled to begin in mid-June.

Attorneys for the General Assembly and the N.C. Justlce
Department spent Monday preparing for both an app€al
and a redistricting session. Mecklenburg Elections SupeM.
sor Bill Culp sent new precinct material to Raleigh to be
used in redistricting,
, The lawyers are expected to meet today with Lt. Gov,
Jimmy Green; House Speaker Liston Ramsey,, D.Madison;

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Move Ahead? The steepte
terian Church in Charlotte,

Alan Schafer
ilIight Return
To Prison

By JIM WALSER
i c&lil luau

COLUMBIA - Former Dlllon County polltlcal
boss Alan Schafer, the'milllonsire owner ol the
South of the Border tourist complex who ple8ded

Sullty ln l98l to vote-buying,.might return to prlson
after 13 months of freedom.' The ,tth U.S. Circuit Court oI Appeals h8s set sslde
a federal dlstrlct jud8e's rullnt that exempted
Schafcr, 70, from servlnS the lost slx month6 ol an
l8-month sentence for conspirecy and mail fraud ln
rigglng the Jrine 1980 Dillon County Derhocratlc pri-
mary.

Schaler served a year in pdsbn. He left oh Dec. l{,
IudSe Wslter Hoffman iuled the U.S.

'"n had set an_ lmproper-parole dat€.Li..d rhe fsulty parole

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State Considers
, Contlnued From preeedlng page
Royall and other legislatiie le-ad-
ers to decide which course to fol.: low.

. But either cours€ will probablv
'.include a request ttrat ttri iuoo"J.

9.r thg- U.S. -supreme Court, s-tay. the effect of the order and alloi
the prlmary to be held uuOei tf,"urrentdistrictplan. -? f,."i r..

"I think we'll move to stay the
order as- regards the pri;rary,
slnce -we're so close to 

-the 
pit-

rilBt]," said Terry Sullivan, hiad
oJ the general research section of
the Legislatlve Services Dlvislon.

- Accordlng to several offlcials
lnvolved, appealing the case could
lul th.e sllte enough time to get
through this election year. Tliey
would have reason to aigue for n'o
clange tn the Novembei ceniiii
Election if candldates naa been ie.
le_cted by current districts in the
May primary.

_ Redist{ctlng in Mecklenburg,
Forsyth, Durham and Wake coufr-
ties could be accomptished with-
out affectlng other parts of the
state. But leglslative staffers are
concerned about complications ln
redrawing the northeastern senate
district. Any changes would affect
other districts and lnvolve most of
the counties east of Raleigh.

- The plan struck down by the
three-judge federal panel wis the
product of the regular General As-
sembly session of lg8l and five
special sessions.

Apprqlff Court's Ruling
If the-state elects to appeal the

case and the U.S. Suprem-e Court
38rees t9 lr-ear it, an opinion could
De months in coming. The General
Assembty will return to Raleishfor its regutar sesston in ra-nriifij.
when redistrtcting coutd b; E#;
yp as part of the regular course of Iousrness. I
-€ .'- * .^..q, i *J-!ta--

- Th.e. judges made thelr ruling ln
a sujt brought by Ratph ci;gb: ;i
.u.asmn-ia and argued by attornevs
Iryeo by. the NAACp Legal Di-
Iense and Education Fund,-includ-
rng l:estie Winner of Charlotte, a
candidate for the House.

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A federal judge in Asheville is
'considering a motlon from the

N.C. attorney general to refuse a
request to over-
turn the murder
convictlon of
J ames Hut.
chlns.

The state
flled lts request
Thursday in
Ashevllle for
conslderatlon
by U.S. District'
Judge Wood-
row Jones.

Hutchins,

darG or its case probably wtll be
sent to the Justice

And in^ a cltv 9f 8,774 residents that is derinitery 
"nr,inil'-il,. 

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nearly-50/s-black but has no black clty neighboihoods to be represented and not
council members, the issue is sure to be hoi. lusithe black neiehbofli6od.s.;; 

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Already, proponents are gath-ering stesm .Th._ fe$eral-fovernment would agreefor what could be a drawn-out fight.- - lvit!,-.!ou!nson i'no triJ aiiies. Hiii".i.iirv,

But.some say- lt isrot a black-white is- -Jhet.S. Justice Department, wtrictr uno6is3g.fltey say the fighl.for.singte-melpbef the federat votlrig-hights Act i.;i;fi;ll
districts is being waged by those w)*r-polit-. changes in voung'iretfr'oas, trai f;"d;;i.i;:
lcal self-lnterest. / gte-member oistiicts. Th;' sfiffi;'r,,ii.iir

But opponents like city council member'
Tim Brown say city officials have never
consciously discriminated against blacks
and didn't in the recent hirings.
_ "Nobody is opposed to hiring blacks,"
Brown said. "But the city is a business, and

it," he said. "lt really showed that the prob-
lem exists. That wouldn't have happened

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she said. "Districts have worked
well on city council. The voters
agree with that."

Winner often mingles her polit
lcal philosophy with her legal
judgment, friends and colleagues
say.

Her friend Lark Hayes, a law-
yer who worked with her for
more than three years at Legal
Servlces of Southern Piedmont
Inc., sald Winner ls drawn to both
law and politics.

"Generally, one often sees law.
yers that are elther challenged by
law or the political nature of law.
(Leslie). . . seems to be fueled by
that dual motlvatlon. She's a two-
burner lawyer," Hayes said.

In the redistrictlng suit and her
other work, ]Vinner said, she
wants to make the politlcal sys.
tem as open as lt can be for all
citizens. "The best kind of gov.
ernment ls the open kind of gov.
ernment, wlth the broadest spec.
trum of voices," Wlnner said.

When the redlstrlctlng csse
came to lawyer Julius Chambers,
for whom Winner started work.

ing in 1981, it was a natural that
it went to her desk. She had lob-
bied the General Assembly ln
1981, trying to salvage state Med-
icaid benefits ordered cut by the
Reagan administration.

"I had worked on tegislative
matters with Legal Services of
North Carolina. I was familiar
with the legislature. I basically
understood what they were talk-
ing about," she said.

With her work on Medicaid,
and for the plaintiffs of the redis-
tricting suit, she said she is trying
to help people, especially the dis-
advantaged, articulate their needs
and opinions.

"The court system Is an exam.
ple. People can't just get off the
street and make effective kinds of
arguments," she said.

She said she learned how to be
an effective advocate under one of
her mentors, U.S. District Judge
James McMillan. She was his law
clerk in 1976-77. He taught her a
precarious balance between mak.

Leslie Winner

lng changes and making waves,
she said.

"I view him as a very wise per.
sgn, at once courageous enough to
do what he thinks needs t6 be
done, but not inclined to rock the
!roa! a.nX more than necessary todo what needs to be accbm-
plished," she said.

Judge McMillan said he learned
from Winner as much as she
learned from him. "I'd claim her
for a daughter," he said. .,She's

done so many consistently good
things."

ih An Abh'eviile'natlve, she is an
..lmmediate past president of the
"N.C. Association of -Women Attor-'lgys: Earlier this month, she an-
nounced for a state House seat as

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