Ripley Eagles Rand is a North Carolina

North Carolina

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 attorney and jurist who was confirmed in late 2010 as the United States Attorney

United States Attorney

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 for the Middle District of North Carolina

United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina

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. President Barack Obama

Barack Obama

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 nominated him to the post on July 28, 2010.

Rand, the son of former state Senator Tony Rand

Tony Rand

Anthony E. "Tony" Rand is an attorney and former Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly who represented the state's nineteenth Senate district from his appointment in 1981 until he unsuccessfully ran for Lieutenant Governor of North Carolina in 1988, and from 1995 until his...

, is a former state prosecutor and former state superior court judge (2002-2010).

Rand earned both a B.A. and a Juris doctor

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 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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. He co-wrote a children's book entitled I Want to Go to UNC!