Judge Kim Taylor
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68 appearances
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard Apr 2025
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They're not bad people.
When I got out of law school, I married a guy from up here in Alexander County. And we studied law practice together. And I did just about everything in a solid law practice or small practice like that. You can't really specialize. So I was doing criminal defense, family law. I would do title searches and thieves and such. Learned a lot. That was when I was 25. And then when I was 30...
I ran for district court judge position that was open up here. And no woman had ever run for it before up here. The guy that was running against me, he came to me and said, well, is this really not your turn? You're only 30 years old. You know, it's really, you know, you need to wait. And I said, no, I'm going to do it. And I won by 75 votes with four counties.
And the night of the election, the newspaper published that my opponent had won. I went to bed thinking that he won. And then the next morning, one precinct in Arnold County, she had broken, and they came through with her, and I won. Yeah, so.
Yeah, it was. It's all the first female jobs up here in either district or peer court. There are a lot of them now, and I'm glad about it because I think sometimes, you know, it helps that women have had to experience discrimination and such.
Yeah, and I don't know how you really educate people about what's going to be happening. I probably didn't say that very well, but if you live in a large city, you might have a place where you're adult son can go to some sort of a work job and some sort of, you know, place where they're safe, but they're with other people. There's nothing much up here in West North Carolina.
And it seems like there's less now than there was.
Yeah, I enjoy it. Thank you for asking me, and thank you for doing what you're doing. I think it's going to be wonderful, and maybe you can write a book or a series of books about it.
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