CAROL BOYLES ANDERSON
EDUCATION: DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW Juris Doctor, 1980
DUKE UNIVERSITY
B. A. in English, cum laude, 1975
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA - CHAPEL HILL
CAROLINA SCHOOL OF BROADCASTING - Charlotte, NC, 1976-1977 Apprenticeship, WCNC Channel 36 Television
EMPLOYMENT: 1985 - Present: WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW Director of Trial Practice (since 1990), the Litigation Clinic (since 1999) & the Judicial Extern Program (since 1990)
1984 - 1985: WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW Adjunct Professor of Law, Clinical Program
1982 - 1985: FORSYTH COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY’S OFFICE Assistant District Attorney. Handled thousands of cases in District Criminal, Traffic, Juvenile, Domestic and Superior Courts.
1980 - 1981: GENE BAKER, ATTORNEY AT LAW 1975 - 1976: NC STATE BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Special Agent, Narcotics and Criminal Investigations
PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES: American Inns of Court, Chief Justice Joseph Branch Inn
- Master of the Bench, 1990 – Present
American Advocates for Justice (formerly, ATLA)
- Chair, Academic Liaison Committee, 1996 -1998 - Co-Chair, Public Education Committee, 2000 -2001
- Member, Curriculum Development Committee, 1999 - 2001 - Member, Legal Affairs Liaison Committee, 2000 - 2001
American Bar Association
- Member, ABA Site Inspections Teams, 1997 and 1998 North Carolina State Bar
- Member, Ethics Committee, 2003 - 2007 North Carolina Advocates for Justice
- Board of Governors, 1998 - 2002
- Program Chair, Annual Trial Advocacy Seminar, 1997- 2001 - Member, Education Committee, 1998 - 2003
North Carolina Bar Foundation
- Chair, Trial Practice Curriculum Committee 1997 - 1999 - Member, CLE Committee, 2007 - 2009
- Chair, CLE's Program Subcommittee, 2008 - 2009
North Carolina Bar Association
- Board Member, CLE Committee, 1997 - 1999
- Member, Local Bar Services Committee, 2001- 2009
Forsyth County Bar Association
- Chair, Access to Justice Campaign, 2001-2002 - President, 2000 - 2001
- President-Elect, 1999 - 2000 - Vice-President, 1995-96, 1998-99
- Member, Executive Committee, 1995 - 2003
Legal Aid Society of Northwest North Carolina, Inc. - Board Member, 1997 - 1999
Faculty Member, National Institute for Trial Advocacy's National Session
Program; Louisville, Colorado, July 12, 2008
Instructor, National Institute of Trial Advocacy Teacher Training Program,
U. S. Department of Justice, Spring 2001
Instructor, National Institute of Trial Advocacy Southeast Regional Trial
Advocacy Program 1989 - 2001. Also served as Assistant Team Leader.
National Institute of Trial Advocacy’s National Advanced Trial Advocacy Program, Colorado Springs, Colorado, July 1999
Instructor, In-House NITA Training, Jenner & Block, Chicago, IL (March 2001);
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, Winston-Salem, NC (2002 - 2012)
Program Director, American Inns of Court, Chief Justice Joseph Branch Inn
1992 - 1997
Instructor, Intensive Trial Advocacy Course, Duke University, 1992 - 1998;
University of North Carolina, 1993
CLE Course Planner:
North Carolina Bar Foundation - “Pre-Trial Practice,” January 1994
- “All-Star Civil Trial Advocacy Seminar,” March 1996 - Litigation Section Annual Meeting, 1996 and 1997
- “Updating Your Advocacy Skills,” July 2003 (Planner and Presenter) - "Direct and Cross-Examination: A More Modern Approach," June 2004 North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers
- Trial Advocacy Clinic, March 1998 and 1999
CLE Speaker:
North Carolina Bar Association
- “Getting Graphic at Trial: How to Use Exhibits”, 1996
- “Using Exhibits at Trial” presented as Best of the Best CLE Lectures, N. C. Bar Association Annual Meeting, 1998
North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers
- “Negotiating a Case for Settlement”, 1998 North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys
- “Gender Differences in the Courtroom”, October 2007
Speaker, Forsyth County Women Attorney’s Association, November 2009
“Communication Skills for Women in the Courtroom and other Legal Settings”
Speaker, Federal Public Defenders’ Conference, April 2012
“Opening Statement and Closing Argument in Federal Court”
Media Consultant, WFMY News 2 Greensboro
- May 22, 2012 live interview in Winston-Salem regarding jury deliberations in Edwards case
- May 31, 2012 live interview at News 2 studio regarding verdict / mistrial in
Edwards case
Media Consultant, WFDD Radio Station of Wake Forest University
- May 31, 2012 interview on WFDD regarding verdict / mistrial in Edwards case
Media Consultant, Winston-Salem Journal, Winston-Salem
-June 28, 2014 quoted in newspaper article on Hasani case mistrial
Webinar Presenter, National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA)
-“How to Get Inside Jurors’ Minds” broadcast from Boulder, Colorado on June 18, 2013
Coach, ABA National Trial Teams (Winner, Region IV Competitions 1989, 1990,
1991; National Quarterfinalists, 1989, 1990, 1991); National Invitational Tournament of Champions (Finalist, 1990).
Coach, AAJ National Trial Team, 2005-2006
Faculty Advisor, Wake Forest School of Law National and AAJ Trial Teams,
Student Trial Bar, 1989 – present
Chair, Wake Forest School of Law Faculty Professionalism
Committee, 2003-2005; Academic Rules and Student Disciplinary Committee, Fall 2006 - Summer 2008
Member, Wake Forest University School of Law Faculty Dean’s Advisory
Committee, Summer 2007 – 2009; Faculty Clinic Advisory Committee, August 2007 – present; Faculty Committee on Metropolitan Externships and External Programs Committee, August 2008 – 2010; Inns of Court Faculty Advisory Committee, (2000 – present)
Editor, Trial Briefs (Quarterly magazine published by the N. C. Academy of Trial
PUBLICATIONS: Videotaped Webinars:
Created and produced educational video series entitled, “Straight Talk from Professor Carol Anderson,” Summer 2014.
Topics: Direct Examination, Finding the Facts, Effective Communication, Powerless Speech, Basic Decision-Making Tools
Books:
Inside Jurors’ Minds: A Hierarchy of Juror Decision-Making, March 2012,
National Institute for Trial Advocacy
Anderson on Advocacy, February 2003, National Institute for Trial Advocacy North Carolina Trial Practice, 1996, Lexis Law Publishing
Articles:
“Selected Rules of Courtroom Decorum,” TRIAL BRIEFS (April 1999) “The Gentle Art of Conversational English in Direct Examination,” 14:1 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRIAL ADVOCACY 111 (Summer 1990) Text for “Wellington v. Wellington: A Marital Dissolution.”
Interactive video, Wake Forest University School of Law and Callaghan & Co. (1987)
PROFESSIONAL HONORS:
Director of Wake Forest University School of Law’s Trial Advocacy Program - Winner of the American College of Trial Lawyer’s Emil Gumpert Award for
Excellence in Teaching Trial Advocacy, with $50,000 cash prize. (2000)
Winner, Richard S. Jacobson Award for Excellence in Teaching Trial Advocacy - Presented by the Roscoe Pound Foundation of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (1994)
Winner, Charles L. Becton Award for Trial Advocacy Teaching - Awarded by the North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers (1996) Fellow, American Bar Association. (2010 – present)
Fellow, Roscoe Pound Foundation (1994 – present)
Founding Academic Fellow, Pound Civil Justice Institute (2013 - present) Member, Order of the Coif
Selected Presenter, “Best of the Best CLE Lectures,” North Carolina Bar Association Annual Meeting (1998)
Winner, Chief Justice Joseph Branch Teaching Award - Wake Forest University School of Law (1997)
Martindale-Hubble AV (Preeminent) Rating
ADMITTED TOPRACTICE: North Carolina State Courts
United States District Court (Middle District of North Carolina) United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces
OTHER COMMUNITY
ACTIVITIES: Leadership Winston-Salem Connections Program Participant, 1996
