Floyd McKissick Jr.

Floyd Bixler McKissick Jr. (born November 21, 1952) is an American attorney who served as a Democratic member of the North Carolina Senate.

[3][4] He was appointed to the Senate by Governor Mike Easley on April 18, 2007 to replace the late Jeanne Hopkins Lucas and was later elected and re-elected in his own right.

[8] McKissick received a Juris Doctor Degree from the Duke University School of Law in Durham, North Carolina.

[9] He co-authored a guide book for the International Trade Administration in the U.S. Department of Commerce on Attracting Foreign Direct Investment to the United States (1981).

The bar found that McKissick improperly represented both sides in a 2000 dispute involving the estate decisions of an elderly Durham man.