ANNA MILLS WAGONER

Anna Mills Wagoner is the recently retired  Senior Resident Superior Court Judge for Rowan county who currently serves as an Emergency Judge and Mediator in the NC Superior courts. Prior to her election in 2011, she was the Presidentially appointed United States Attorney for the Middle District of North Carolina for 11 years, a post from which she resigned in 2011 to stand for election to the Superior Court Bench.  A cum laude graduate of Wake forest University School of Law, she began her judicial career when she was first elected as a District Court Judge in 1990. Following her reelection, she  was appointed as Chief District Court Judge by  Chief Justice James G Exum of the N.C. Supreme Court and she continued in that capacity until her appointment as U.S. attorney.   She has been a member of numerous Boards and Commissions throughout the State and Country and was especially honored to serve as the Chair of the North Carolina Innocence Inquiry commission for 4 years. Judge Wagoner is admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals  the District of Columbia  bar and all federal and state courts in N.C. She and her husband Bill have 2 children and 3 grandchildren and reside in Salisbury.