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== Early life and education ==
Earls grew up in Seattle, Washington. Her parents relocated there because Missouri banned interracial marriage (Earls's mother is white, her father is black). Earls and her brother were both adopted.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=3 March 2014 |title=Anita Earls Oral History Transcription |url=https://repository.duke.edu/dc/videoforsocialchange/e540ba0c-9891-4735-8336-d2e098b25fe4 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230905004422/https://repository.duke.edu/dc/videoforsocialchange/e540ba0c-9891-4735-8336-d2e098b25fe4 |archive-date=5 September 2023 |access-date=5 September 2023 |website=[[Duke University]] Digital Repositories}}</ref>
Earls is a graduate of [[Williams College]] and [[Yale Law School]].<ref name="Observer">{{Cite news |url=https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/editorials/article219823225.html |title=For the NC Supreme Court – Anita Earls |work=newsobserver |access-date=2018-12-01 |language=en}}</ref> Attending [[Williams College]], where she majored in [[political economy]] and [[philosophy]]. Upon graduation Earls received a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship to study the role of women in [[Ujamaa]] villages in [[Tanzania]], but her time abroad was cut short by multiple bouts of [[malaria]]. She subsequently moved to [[England]], worked in a solicitor's office, and married her first husband. Three years later she returned to the [[United States]] and attended [[Yale Law School|Yale Law]].<ref name=":0" />
== Legal career ==
Following her graduation from [[Yale Law School]], in 1988 Earls was hired by [[James Ferguson II]] to join [[Julius L. Chambers|Ferguson, Stein, Watt, Wallas, Adkins & Gresham]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wral.com/earls-promises-justice-with-strong-heart-as-member-of-nc-supreme-court/18101664/|title=Earls promises justice 'with strong heart' as member of NC Supreme Court|last=WRAL|date=2019-01-03|website=WRAL.com|language=en|access-date=2019-03-01}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article90052327.html|title=Civil rights champion James Ferguson wins The Charlotte Post Luminary Award|website=charlotteobserver|language=en|access-date=2019-03-01}}</ref> where she practiced civil rights litigation.<ref name="nccourts.gov">{{Cite web |title=Anita Earls {{!}} North Carolina Judicial Branch |url=https://www.nccourts.gov/judicial-directory/anita-earls |access-date=2023-09-03 |website=www.nccourts.gov}}</ref>
In 1998 Earls was appointed by President [[Bill Clinton]] to serve as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the [[U.S. Department of Justice]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.dcbar.org/about-the-bar/news/member-spotlight-anita-earls.cfm|title=Civil Rights Attorney Anita Earls: Running to Protect an Independent Judiciary|website=www.dcbar.org|access-date=2019-03-01}}</ref>
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Citing unnamed sources, the Washington Post reported that Earls was among the short-list of candidates under consideration by the Biden administration for nomination to the [[United States Supreme Court]] to replace retiring [[Stephen Breyer|Justice Breyer]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Kim|first=Seung Min|date=January 28, 2022|title=White House confirms South Carolina judge is under consideration for Supreme Court|newspaper=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/01/28/white-house-confirms-south-carolina-judge-under-consideration-supreme-court/|access-date=January 31, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Gresko |first1=Jessica |title=For a historic high court pick, Dems must think outside box |url=https://apnews.com/3a36206929862d7c06293a5724eff2fd |access-date=September 19, 2020 |website=Associated Press}}</ref> Ultimately, Biden nominated District Judge [[Ketanji Brown Jackson]] to fill the vacancy.
On August 29, 2023 Earls filed a lawsuit in Federal court (Earls v. North Carolina Judicial Standards Commission, et al, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina, No. 23-cv-00734) accusing North Carolina's judicial ethics commission of launching an investigation into her that stifles her First Amendment-protected criticism of the lack of diversity in the state's courts, stemming from a Law360 interview in which she discussed potential "implicit biases" among her colleagues, a lack of Black law clerks being hired, and how the court's new conservative majority had disbanded a commission tasked with examining racial and gender inequality in the judicial system.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Raymond |first
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== Personal life ==
Anita is married to Charles D. Walton, a native of Raleigh, North Carolina. She has two children and one grandchild.<ref
== See also ==
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