Julie Ramseur Lewis has served as an assistant public defender in Charlotte since 1993. The majority of her practice is in the state appellate courts. She has also practiced in district and superior court and continues to provide trial support for the Office of the Mecklenburg County Public Defender. Before serving as an assistant public defender, Ms. Lewis clerked for Chief Judge R.A. Hedrick of the North Carolina Court of Appeals and thereafter was a staff attorney for the North Carolina Court of Appeals. She has also served as an adjunct professor of Legal Research and Writing at the University of North Carolina School of Law at Chapel Hill. Ms. Lewis earned a B.A. magna cum laude from Catawba College and a J.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.