Maurice Victor Barnhill (1887 – 1963) was an associate justice (1937-54) and chief justice (1954-56) of the North Carolina Supreme Court. Barnhill was born in Halifax County, North Carolina on December 5, 1887 and attended the University of North Carolina Law School. He was a prosecutor in Nash County, North Carolina and was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives, serving in 1921. He was a Nash County judge and a state superior court judge before Governor Clyde R.

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  • Maurice Victor Barnhill (1887 – 1963) was an associate justice (1937-54) and chief justice (1954-56) of the North Carolina Supreme Court. Barnhill was born in Halifax County, North Carolina on December 5, 1887 and attended the University of North Carolina Law School. He was a prosecutor in Nash County, North Carolina and was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives, serving in 1921. He was a Nash County judge and a state superior court judge before Governor Clyde R. Hoey appointed him to the state Supreme Court on July 1, 1937. As a superior court judge, Barnhill presided over the murder trial that followed the Loray Mill Strike. He was subsequently elected to the Supreme Court in 1938 and re-elected in 1946. Barnhill was appointed Chief Justice by Governor William B. Umstead on February 1, 1954, and he was elected to the post on November 2, 1954.
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  • Maurice Victor Barnhill (1887 – 1963) was an associate justice (1937-54) and chief justice (1954-56) of the North Carolina Supreme Court. Barnhill was born in Halifax County, North Carolina on December 5, 1887 and attended the University of North Carolina Law School. He was a prosecutor in Nash County, North Carolina and was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives, serving in 1921. He was a Nash County judge and a state superior court judge before Governor Clyde R.
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  • M.V. Barnhill
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