Ep 203 | Richard Leonard | Dean at Campbell University School of Law was a Pioneering Judge and is a Citizen of the World
The Lawyer Stories Podcast
Benjamin Gold
5.0 • 541 Ratings
🗓️ 8 November 2024
⏱️ 55 minutes
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The Lawyer Stories Podcast Episode 203 features Richard Leonard, Dean at Campbell University School in Raleigh, North Carolina, and author of "From Welcome to Windhoek: A Judge's Journey." We discuss Dean Leonard's story, growing up in Welcome, North Carolina, and becoming an innovative judge, global citizen and go-to guy for court-building in emerging African nations. Over the course of his long career, Dean Leonard has been a pioneering judge, a groundbreaking court administrator, a restorer of historic courthouses and, at age 29 the youngest U.S. District Court Clerk in the country.
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to the Lawyer Stories podcast with host Benny Gold. Lawyer Stories was founded in July 2017 on Instagram and is an expanding global network of lawyers and law students sharing their personal journeys to the noble profession of the practice of law. |
| 0:16.7 | Join us on this podcast as we dig deeper into these stories and hear from lawyers and law |
| 0:21.5 | students from around the world in all areas of the legal profession. |
| 0:25.9 | Here at lawyer stories, we believe that every lawyer has a story. |
| 0:29.8 | What's yours? |
| 0:32.7 | Welcome to the Lawyer Stories podcast with Benny Gold. |
| 0:44.3 | Today we welcome in Rich Leonard, Dean at Campbell University School of Law, located in Raleigh, North Carolina, and former U.S. bankruptcy judge for the |
| 0:57.7 | Eastern District of North Carolina. The dean is also an author of the memoir, from Welcome |
| 1:05.2 | to Windhook, a judge's journey. How are you, sir? Good to have you. Thanks for coming on. I'm great, |
| 1:11.9 | and I'm really honored to have a chance to talk with you, Benny. Oh, that's really kind. Yeah, |
| 1:16.2 | you have such a great story. I was looking up, you know, about the book and about, you know, |
| 1:21.2 | about your background. And it's really interesting how, you know, went from Judge to Dean of a |
| 1:26.8 | law school. So I'm excited to talk to you today. So yeah, tell know, went from judge to dean of a law school. |
| 1:29.3 | So I'm excited to talk to you today. |
| 1:33.1 | So tell us, Dean, just as a general background. |
| 1:37.0 | So where, like, where do we start? |
| 1:38.6 | Like, tell us where you're from originally. |
| 1:42.5 | I am, I'm from rural North Carolina. |
| 1:43.1 | Okay. I'm the product of two big agrarian clans in Piedmont, North Carolina. |
| 1:48.2 | Wow. |
| 1:48.7 | My dad was the 13th of 15. |
| 1:51.5 | My mother was the second of four. |
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