Lucy Inman
Lucy Noble Inman is a judge of the North Carolina Court of Appeals and formerly served as a special North Carolina Superior Court judge. Inman won election to the appellate court in a statewide race on November 4, 2014.[1][2]
Inman is the daughter of author Lucy Daniels, the granddaughter of former White House Press Secretary Jonathan W. Daniels and the great-granddaughter of Navy Secretary Josephus Daniels. Inman was born in Indianapolis, Indiana while her father was working at the Indianapolis Star. The family returned to Raleigh while she was an infant.[3] Inman earned her undergraduate degree from North Carolina State University in 1984 and worked as a newspaper reporter before attending law school at the University of North Carolina School of Law.[4] After earning her law degree in 1990 she clerked for Chief Justice James G. Exum at the North Carolina Supreme Court. Inman was in private practice from 1992 to 2010, when she was appointed to the superior court as a special judge by Governor Bev Perdue.
She won election to the Court of Appeals in 2014, defeating District Court Judge Bill Southern in a race to replace retiring Judge Robert C. Hunter.