On December 13 newly appointed Chief District Court Judge Teresa Freeman will receive the gavel after her recent appointment to the position.
The passing of the gavel ceremony is scheduled for 1 p.m. at the Halifax County Courthouse on Ferrell Lane in Halifax.
Chief Justice Paul Newby appointed Freeman to serve as chief district court judge for Bertie, Halifax, Hertford, and Northampton counties — Judicial District 7.
She will replace W. Turner Stephenson who is retiring.
She was first elected to the court in 2008.
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Freeman received her undergraduate degree from North Carolina A&T State University and her law degree from North Carolina Central University School of Law.
After graduating from law school, she worked as a corporate attorney in Winston-Salem and later served as an assistant district attorney with the Halifax District Attorney’s Office.
Freeman is a native of Halifax County and a graduate of Halifax County Schools where her mother served as an educator for over 40 years.
She is the youngest daughter of Leroy and Vivian Robinson of Enfield and she has two older siblings.
She graduated from A&T with a bachelor’s in English education in 1998. During her tenure at A&T, Freeman was an NC Teaching Fellow, Chancellor's Scholar and also pledged the Alpha Mu Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority.
She attended the NCCU law school for three years and worked in Winston-Salem for three before returning home to Enfield in 2004 to work as an assistant district attorney.
In 2005, she reconnected with Montre Freeman who she had already initially met when she was 15-years-old at a summer camp at Chowan College in Murfreesboro during their high school years.
They have a daughter, Maleah, 13, and a son, Kingston, 7.
