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McCrory appoints Orr to fill D.A. vacancy

Gov. Pat McCrory has appointed Hendersonville native and former state Supreme Court justice Bob Orr to fill the vacant district attorney's seat serving Avery, Madison, Mitchell, Watauga and Yancey counties.

The vacancy in the 24th Prosecutorial District was created by the retirement of Jerry Wilson.

"I would like to thank Justice Orr for his willingness to serve our great state again," McCrory said a news release.

Orr will serve until a new district attorney is elected this year. He has most recently been Of Counsel at Poyner Spruill and is taking a leave of absence from the firm to take the appointment. Orr served as a member of the N.C. Court of Appeals for eight years before joining the N.C. Supreme Court where he served for 10 years. After retiring from the judiciary, he spent seven years as the Executive Director and Senior Counsel for the NC Institute for Constitutional Law, a nonprofit public interest organization.

Orr and McCrory were rivals when both ran for the Republican nomination for governor in 2008.