Sixteenth Judicial District Bar, Durham County Bar Association & Durham Bar Foundation
Officers and Directors 2024-2026
President
Joshua McIntyre (2017)
Senior Director of Outreach & Engagement
North Carolina Advocates for Justice
Vice-President
Yesenia L. Polanco-Galdamez (2020)
Polanco Law, P.C.
Secretary
Antoinette Burwell (2008)
Assistant Public Defender
Treasurer
Vanya Allen (2014)
Senior Risk and Compliance Professional, IBM
Directors
Dawn Y. Baxton (2022)
Chief Public Defender
Fourteenth Defender District
Alexander J. Cabrejas (2023)
Cabrejas Law Firm PA
Dietrich Dye McMillan (2021)
Legal Aid of NC – Durham
Judge Dorothy Hairston Mitchell
(2007, 2018)
District Court Judge, Durham County
Meredith Nicholson (2019)
Nicholson Pham Law
Matthew Alan Turpin (2024)
Walker Lambe, PLLC
Eric M. Williams (2020)
The Law Offices of Eric M. Williams, PLLC
Jonathan Wilson II (2024)
J. Wilson Law PLLC
Immediate Past President
Brandon Robinson (2018)
Attorney at Law
(year) is their first year on the board
Non-Board Member/
Executive Director (all dues/membership questions)
Bonnie B. Biggs (2006)
Fourteenth/DCBA
PO BOX 593
Durham, NC 27702
Phone: (919) 682-2012 (extension 0)
info@durhambar.org
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Past Presidents of the Durham Bar Organizations
The year noted is the year in which each president was elected.
2024 – 2026 Joshua McIntyre
2022-2024 Brandon Robinson
2021 Woody Vann
2020 Lindsey Spain
2019 Dieter Mauch
2018 Kelly Mackay
2017 Kelly Mackay
2016 Guy Crabtree
2015 Fred Battaglia
2014 Dorothy Mitchell
2013 Carlos Mahoney
2012 Catherine Pavur
2011 Christy Malott
2010 Philip Mullins
2009 Curtis Massey
2008 Devon White
2007 Bill Hutchins
2006 Chris Hyland
2005 Gina Reyman
2004 Lowell Siler
2003 Charlie Steel
2002
2001 William Marsh III
2000 Bill Lambe
1999 Ruth Hammer
1998 Drew Marsh
1997 John Bowman
1996 Jan Paul
1995 Nancy Gordon
1994 Eugene Dauchert
1993 Bernell Daniel-Weeks
1992 Finesse Couch
1991 Lawrence Campbell
1990 Patrick Baker
1989
1987
1986 Robert A. Beason
1974 - 1986
Susan Olive
1973 DCBA Meredith Hugh Thompson
1973-74 JD Meredith Hugh Thompson
1968 - 1972
1967 Dan K. Edwards
1966 DCBA W. R. Winders
1965 DCBA Robert D. Holleman
1965 GHWB W. G. Pearson II
1964 DCBA Henry Bane
1963 JD A. H. Borland
1963 DCBA Allston Stubbs
1962 14JD James L. Newsom
1962 DCBA S. C. Brawley
1961 DCBA Judge A. R. Wilson
1961 JD14 Albert W. Kennon
1960 DCBA A. R. Wilson
1959 DCBA W. C. Purcell
1958 DCBA Al Kennon
1957 JD14 Claude V. Jones
1957 DCBA A. H. "Bus" Borland
1956 DCBA E. C. Brooks Jr.
1956 JD Claude V. Jones
1955 JD 14 Bruce White
1955 DCBA W. Hance Hofler
1953 Robert Dunn Holleman
1953 DCBA E. C. Bryson DCBA
1953 DCBA Marshall T. Spears
1952 JD 10 Claude Bittle
Edward Knox “E.K.” Powe III
1949 Claude V. Jones
1951 Judge Marshall T. Spears
1950 William H. Murdock
1949
1948 JD 10 W. D. Merritt of Roxboro
1947 DCBA William H. Murdock
1946 DCBA Basil Watkins
1945 DCBA W. L. Foushee
1927 - 1944
DCBA Robert M. Gantt
DCBA & JD William A. Marsh Jr.
(National Bar Association Hall of Fame)
DCBA Henry Grady Hedrick
James Taylor Hedrick
1926 DCBA Willis J. Brogden
(Assoc. Justice NCSC)
1925 DCBA William Brooks Guthrie