The Greensboro City Attorney’s Office has a new and familiar face on staff: Judge Lora Cubbage has joined the City of Greensboro as a deputy city attorney. Cubbage is well known in the local – as well as the state’s – legal community.
In a public statement this week, Cubbage said she’s really excited about her new role.
“Joining the Greensboro City Attorney’s Office affords me an opportunity to learn a whole new area of law,” she said. “I am eager to bridge the gap between law enforcement and the community by fostering transparency in city governance and municipal law.”
In her new role, rather than adjudicating cases that come before her, Cubbage will provide legal representation for the City of Greensboro’s public safety departments.
She will also be working with a team conducting lobbying efforts on behalf of Greensboro. City officials say that her years as a judge will be “instrumental as this role involves collaborating with local attorneys and community leaders on a daily basis.”
“This marks the first time a former Superior Court judge will serve as a member of the city’s legal team,” stated Greensboro City Attorney Chuck Watts. “Judge Cubbage has an impressive track record as an attorney and the residents of Greensboro will benefit from her legal acumen and commitment to public service.”
Before joining the City of Greensboro’s team of legal eagles, Cubbage served in a number of judicial roles including assistant district attorney in Guilford County, assistant attorney general in the North Carolina Department of Justice, and as a district court judge.
In 2018, former NC Governor Roy Cooper appointed Cubbage to serve as a North Carolina superior court judge in Judicial District 24A.
Cubbage is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of Law and North Carolina A&T State University.
Last year, in an interview with The Daily Tar Heel newspaper, Cubbage responded to a question as to why she was so passionate about justice.
“Because I am a person of color,” she said. “And it is my community in which I have seen firsthand, I have read about and I have learned things about the political context — all of the injustices that my community has suffered. When I was cutting hair for 17 years, that’s why I decided to step out on faith as a single mother and try to get a college education and then go to law school. Because my clients were suffering injustice.”
Guess the last paragraph sums it all up rather well.
The most concerning and frightening part is her response to the question of passion for justice: “Because I am a person of color,” she said. “And it is my community in which I have seen firsthand, I have read about and I have learned things about the political context — all of the injustices that my community has suffered. When I was cutting hair for 17 years, that’s why I decided to step out on faith as a single mother and try to get a college education and then go to law school. Because my clients were suffering injustice.” She believes in justice for Blacks, not Whites. not Hispanics, not Asians, not anyone except Blacks. That comment alone shows she is unqualified for the job. If Chuck Watts was aware of this comment and I’ll wager he was, shame on him for hiring her. But then again, Watts harbors deep seated resentment of Whites that go all the way back to his father. Grow up, Chucky. I know you are old but don’t you think it is time to move on?
“a whole new area of law”? A new area would be a change in the statutes. Could this be politikspeak for applying the Marxist/Socialist agenda of the Democrat party?
Is this a judgeship that is being abolish by the legislature, or did she choose not to rune for election?
She lost in the Democrat primary in her district.
She was appointed to the Superior Court when there was a vacancy. She She ran for a seat on the NC Supreme Court but lost in the primary.
Just what Greensboro needs. Another DEI hire
She says she’s about transparency, maybe she will tell us whether or not Chuck Watts actually lives in Greensboro
Oftentimes, I hear some Americans say that “Black people need to do more for themselves, and stop relying on the government.” Judge Cubbage has done just that, and more. She left a job that offered little or no promise for social upliftment. She enrolled in college, earned a bachelors degree and doctor of Jurisprudence. Since her graduation, she studied for and passed the Bar Exam. Then, she devoted herself to her profession as a public servant and judge.
Despite doing all of that, some people are determined to discredit her mostly because of her color. Evidently, she gets no credit for having the personal ambition to strive for something better. Seemingly, some readers would like her better if she had simply settle for a job with little or now prospect for upward economic and mobility. She gets no credit for being a law-abiding citizen, an exemplary role-model for other single mothers.
Sadly, some folks are staunchly opposed to someone from a disadvantaged group achieving any meaningful measure of success. Supposedly, they would like Ms. Cubbage much better if she had just accepted her low socio-economic-lot status, and make herself content with her low income, and status. Notwithstanding all her efforts to become a creditable, honorable, and respectable person, and contributing member of her society, some are unwilling to look past her color and judge he by the contents of her character. Evidently, they would prefer to believe her color has poisoned her character and humanity, rendering her irredeemably incurable. Thankfully, she does not believe that. Equally true, Greensboro City Attorney Chuck Watts does not either. So kudos to Attorney and former Judge Lora Cubbage! Despite the haters, you’ve done well for yourself.
Some of your comments are so condescending, which show your feelings of superiority. Since when is a hairdresser’s, or barber for that matter, job “offer little or no promise for social upliftment?” Since when has “public servant or judge” become a profession? Has a politician now risen to the ranks of doctor, lawyer, engineer, and teacher? A member of a “disadvantage group?” So, do you consider all Blacks as members of a ‘disadvantage group?” What is DEI; what about Skip Alston, Deena Hayes, Chuck Watts; what about affirmative action which was eventually identified for what it was, an unlawful way to advance Blacks; what about government interference in businesses’ practices by forcing them to make decisions not based on merit but so that this unfair practice can advance Blacks? And how do you know that as a hairdresser that Cubbage’s had “low income?” Chuck Watts, who is Black, considers his lifetime role to be to advance himself and other Blacks that he considers worthy.
Someone please inform city attorney Watts, that the Honorable Polly Sizemore was a Guilford District Court Judge prior to her employ at the city. Cubbage gives the impression she has an axe to grind, at the expense of GPD.
You are correct. Unlike Chuck Watts, she was a resident of Guilford County.
WOW, what a poor hire for the City. Apparently GSO does not need a good lawyer. Imagine waking up everyday just looking for this kind of justice to adjudicate.
She will oversee lobbying efforts on behalf of Greensboro? I seem to recall the city recently had an employee dedicated to just that. I think an intergovernmental relations manager.
Another DEI hire? I am a person of color. . .just not what you presume it to be. When will it ever end? Rodney King was right. . .can’t we just all get along?
Joe why are you so upset by the term “DEI” hire
Short answer, no.
She admits she a sought career on the bench because she’s black and wanted to punish white people.
What a perfect fit for the socialist city government in Greensboro!
The Greensboro Attorney’s office needs all the Professional Clout it can get following all the corruption within the City of Greensboro’s many departments. Even a former Superior Court Judge can’t justify all the corruption that has taken place here Judge Lora! Maybe, that is why they hired you?
Will you address why former City Managers don’t have to follow the same laws and be prosecuted as all our other citizens are? They even receive severance package and retirement despite them breaking laws and city employment contracts.
Why a veteran Greensboro Fire Dept. Captain and lifesaving heroes was fired for non-violent non-criminal Facebook Post?
Why GPD off duty Police officers were not prosecuted or fired for an attempted robbery of a known drug dealer in Greensboro?
Why are the laws in Greensboro interpreted and not enforced? Did our Police Chief and his Officer’s not take an oath of the office to enforce all the laws of the City, State, and Nation? Meanwhile, they repeatedly fail to follow their obligations and oaths of office?
Superior Court and Superior means nothing unless you are being diligent in protecting the law-abiding citizens of Greensboro. Only time will tell if you were a decent hire?