Rhoda Billings

Rhoda Bryan Billings (born September 30, 1937) is an American lawyer and a former justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.

[2] She earned her Juris Doctor degree from Wake Forest University School of Law in 1966.

[3] From 1982 to 1984 Billings served on the Board of Governors of the North Carolina Bar Association.

[3] She was defeated by James G. Exum in the election for chief justice in November of that year.

Billings was named in 2008 to the National Committee on the Right to Counsel established by the Constitution Project of Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute and the National Legal Aid and Defender Association.