Former North Carolina Supreme Court Justice
Patricia Timmons-Goodson
Receives the 2015 W. E. B. DuBois Award
Association of Social and Behavioral Scientists, Inc.
Carolina. Annually, social and
behavioral scientists and other
scholars from Historically Black
Colleges and Universities host the
conference as a forum to continue
the work of ASBS in addressing
issues that impact Blacks in the
nation and beyond. While the
majority of the Association’s
membership remains social and
behavioral scientists, membership
and participation in the
organization are open to scholars
from all academic disciplines and
ethnicities.
Former North Carolina Supreme
Court Justice Patricia A.
Timmons-Goodson is the 2015
recipient of the Association of
Social and Behavioral Scientists,
Inc. (ASBS) W. E. B. DuBois
Award. The Award will be
presented at the group’s Annual
W. E. B. DuBois Award Luncheon.
The event will be held at 12:00
noon on Friday, March 20, 2015
during the Association’s 80th
Annual Conference in
Fayetteville, March 18-21, 2015 at
the Embassy Suites Hotel (4760
Lake Valley Drive) in the Richard
M. Wiggins Conference Center.
Justice Timmons-Goodson will be
the luncheon’s keynote speaker.
The Association of Social and
Behavioral Scientists was founded
in 1935 at Johnson C. Smith
University in Charlotte, North
The W. E. B. DuBois Award was
introduced in 1970 to honor
outstanding social and behavioral
scientists and civic leaders who
have made significant
contributions to improve the lives
of Black Americans. Past North
Carolina-recipients of this
prestigious award include such
prominent scholars, community
leaders, and government officials
as Dr. Dorothy Cowser Yancy
(1996), former President of
Johnson C. Smith University; the
honorable Justice Henry E. Frye
(2002), former Chief Justice of the
North Carolina Supreme Court;
U. S. Congresswoman, Alma S.
Adams (2008), who served ten
terms in the North Carolina
General Assembly before being
elected to the U. S. Congress
(November 12, 2014); and Dr.
Alton Thompson (2010), Professor
of Agricultural Economics and
former Provost and Vice
Chancellor for Academic Affairs
at North Carolina A&T State
University.
J u st i c e Ti m m on s - G o o d s o n
received the B. A. degree in
Speech from the University of
North Carolina-Chapel Hill and
the J. D. degree from the
University of North CarolinaChapel Hill School of Law. After
working as a private attorney in
Fayetteville, she became an
Assistant District Attorney for the
12th Prosecutorial District in 1981.
She served as a Judge in the
North Carolina 12th Judicial
District from 1984 to 1996 when
she was appointed to the North
Carolina Court of Appeals by
Governor Jim Hunt. In February
2006, Justice Timmons-Goodson
was appointed Associate Justice
on the North Carolina Supreme
Court by Governor Mike Easley.
She retired from the Supreme
Court in 2012. In 2014, President
Barack Obama appointed Justice
Timmons-Goodson to the U. S.
Commission on Civil Rights.
The personal and professional
achievements of Justice TimmonsGoodson include removing racial
barriers, improving the lives of
Black Americans, promoting
equality, justice and civil rights
for all people in Fayetteville,
North Carolina and the United
States. She deserves honor and
recognition for her many
accomplishments.