David M. Britt

David Maxwell Britt[1] (January 3, 1917 – May 5, 2009)[2] was a North Carolina politician and jurist who served as Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, as one of the original judges of the North Carolina Court of Appeals, and finally as a justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.

[2] Born in McDonald, North Carolina, he was the brother of federal judge W. Earl Britt.

Britt studied law at Wake Forest University and then passed the bar exam, even though he left law school a few classes short of graduation.

Britt was elected to the state Supreme Court in 1978, succeeding I. Beverly Lake, Sr., and served through 1982.

[3] He then joined the Raleigh law firm of Bailey & Dixon.