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North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Walter Dalton will be a guest speaker at the North Carolina Central University School of Law on October 28, 2009. Lt. Governor Dalton will address student members of the law school’s Public Interest Law Organization (PILO) during a noontime luncheon.
Dalton received his law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and developed a successful private law practice and spent 12 years in the State Senate before being elected Lieutenant Governor in 2008.
By virtue of office, Dalton presides over the Senate and sits on both the State Board of Education and the State Board of Community Colleges. Dalton has been a long-time advocate of improving public schools and preparing students to compete in the global economy. He chairs the Joining Our Businesses and Schools (JOBS) Commission, which aims to align the curricula of early college high schools more closely with the workforce needs of the economic development regions and enhance Science, Technology, Engineering and Math education (STEM) in the public schools.
He also has championed efforts to preserve jobs by making capital more readily available to small business. |
