Jane P. Gray is a North Carolina

North Carolina

North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...

 judge and candidate for the North Carolina Court of Appeals

North Carolina Court of Appeals

The North Carolina Court of Appeals is the only intermediate appellate court in the state of North Carolina. It is composed of fifteen members who sit in rotating groups of three...

 in the 2010 election

North Carolina judicial elections, 2010

One justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court and five judges of the North Carolina Court of Appeals were elected by North Carolina voters on November 2, 2010, on the same day as the U.S. Senate election, U.S. House elections, and other state-level elections. North Carolina judicial elections are...

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Gray received a B.A. in Sociology from the University of Florida

University of Florida

The University of Florida is an American public land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant research university located on a campus in Gainesville, Florida. The university traces its historical origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its present Gainesville campus since September 1906...

, and her J.D.

Juris Doctor

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 from Campbell University

Campbell University

Campbell University is a coeducational, church-related university in rural North Carolina, USA. Its main campus is located in the community of Buies Creek; its law school moved from Buies Creek to a new campus in the state capital of Raleigh in 2009. Campbell has an approximately equal number of...

's Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law

Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law

The Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law is a private law school located in Raleigh, North Carolina. Founded in 1976, the law school is one of six graduate programs offered by Campbell University...

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After working at the North Carolina Department of Justice from 1980 through 1998, Gray served as general counsel for the office of the Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives

Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives

The Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives is the presiding officer of one of the houses of the North Carolina General Assembly. The Speaker is elected by the members of the house when they convene for their regular session in January of each odd-numbered year...

. She was appointed to the state District Court bench in 2002, elected to the court in 2004, and re-elected in 2008.

Running for the Court of Appeals in 2010, Gray was endorsed by the Charlotte Observer, which called her an "outstanding trial court judge with extensive service in the executive and legislative branches before joining the judicial branch of government." In the May 2010 non-partisan primary, Gray came in second of the three candidates, thus advancing to the November general election versus Ann Marie Calabria

Ann Marie Calabria

Ann Marie Calabria is an American jurist, currently a judge on the North Carolina Court of Appeals.Born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, Calabria studied at Fairleigh Dickinson University, where she earned a B.A., then at Campbell University's Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law, where she earned a...

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