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David Hillier honored with the 2004 Centennial Award

Dave Hillier wins the 2004 Centennial Award; The Centennial Award annually honors an individual lawyer for outstanding effort in providing community service. The service may be of any nature that benefits the city
and/or county or counties from which the local bar membership is drawn. Examples of
community service include, but are not limited to: elected and/or appointed service to local
government; civic involvement on boards of community agencies; involvement in public service
projects, such as Habitat for Humanity; volunteer involvement with schools, churches or other
nonprofit organizations. To read the full story, click here!

NEW STATE BAR AWARDS NAMED FOR SPECIALIZATION FOUNDERS
The efforts of three NCBA members who helped establish the State Bar's specialization program two decades ago are being commemorated by the N.C. State Bar Board of Legal Specialization, which recently named new awards for James E. Cross Jr. of Oxford and Asheville attorneys Howard L. Gum and Sarah H. Davis. Initial presentation of the service and excellence awards will take place at the annual specialists luncheon on April 7 in Charlotte. Check out the North Carolina State Bar's Announcment here!

Howard Gum voted Super Lawyer in 2006

What is a Super Lawyer? Super Lawyers are the top 5 percent of attorneys in each state, as chosen by their peers and through the independent research of Law & Politics. Early in 2006, Super Lawyers released the 2006 honorees in North Carolina. Included on that very short list was Howard Gum of Gum, Hillier & McCroskey. Look for the full dupcliated article here in the near future.

Howard Gum Elected State Bar Councilor

In October, 2006, Howard Gum was elected to the position of State Bar Councilor by the lawyers of Buncombe County's 28th Judicial District Bar.  A three year term, the State Bar Liaison acts as representative before the state bar for lawyers practicing law in the 28th Judicial District.  Mr. Gum fills the seat of vacating state bar councilor, Sara Davis, who served in the position for nearly a decade.  Sara Davis was also honored to have a Specialization Award named for her earlier this year beside Howard.  Howard and Sara have served the 28th Judicial District Bar and the lawyers of Buncombe County and Western North Carolina tirelessly and have done much work to maintain a high level of professionalism within the legal field in North Carolina.

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