 |
Name:
James C. Drennan |
| Title:
Albert Coates Professor of Public Law and Government |
| Phone:
919.966.4160 |
| E-mail: drennan@sog.unc.edu |
| Areas
of Interest: Director, North Carolina Judicial College; the court system, including structure, administration, procedure, and personnel; legal responsibilities of clerks of court; legal aspects of driving while impaired; driver license revocations; community corrections; legal aspects of nonprofit organizations; pattern jury instructions; North Carolina constitution |
Jim Drennan joined the Institute of
Government in 1974. He is a member of the North Carolina State Bar, the American Bar Association, and the National Association of State Judicial Educators. While on leave in the 1990s, he served as director of the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts for three years. His consulting activities include work with the North Carolina Sentencing and Policy Advisory Commission, the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles, the Division of Community Corrections of the North Carolina Department of Correction, and the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts. His recent writings have focused on impaired driving, judicial administration (court security, privacy and open records issues, and jurisdiction issues) and legal aspects of nonprofit organizations that have dealings with local governments. Drennan earned a BA from Furman University and a JD from Duke University.
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