State Representative Rodney D. Pierce's next Bringing the Capital to the Constituents program will feature North Carolina Supreme Court Senior Associate Justice Anita Earls and Associate Justice Allison Riggs.

The event will take place at 6 p.m. on Monday, December 1 at the Northampton County Cultural and Wellness Center in Jackson.

Bringing the Capital to the Constituents is Pierce’s signature outreach series designed to connect residents of North Carolina’s House District 27 directly with leaders in state government. 

“The December program offers a rare opportunity for community members to hear from two of the state’s highest judicial officers,” Pierce said.

Earls, appointed to the North Carolina Supreme Court in 2018, is the only Black justice currently serving on the court and only the third Black woman in the state’s history to do so. 

A nationally recognized civil rights attorney before joining the bench, Earls founded the Southern Coalition for Social Justice and spent decades advocating for voting rights and equal justice under the law.

Riggs was appointed to the Supreme Court in 2023 after serving as a judge on the North Carolina Court of Appeals. Prior to her judicial service, Riggs was an attorney with the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, where she worked alongside Earls on pivotal cases protecting voting rights and ensuring fair representation. She was re-elected in 2024.

This installment of Bringing the Capital to the Constituents coincides with a historic event

— the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks’s refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus, an act that sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott and ignited a new chapter in the American Civil Rights Movement.

“It’s a true honor to host Justices Earls and Riggs here in northeastern North Carolina on such a meaningful date,” said Representative Pierce. “This event will help citizens understand how decisions of the NC Supreme Court shape our state.”

The event is free and open to the public.