Faculty

	Name: Thomas H. Thornburg
	Titles: Senior Associate Dean; Professor of Public Law and Government
	Phone: 919.966.4377
	E-mail: thornburg@sog.unc.edu

Tom Thornburg joined the Institute of Government faculty in 1990. Previously, he interned at The Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C., and was a summer law clerk at the Institute of Government. His faculty work has focused primarily on criminal law and procedure. On loan from the Institute, he served from 1992 to 1993 as chief legal counsel to the North Carolina Department of Correction. He has edited and revised North Carolina Crimes: A Guidebook on the Elements of Crime (Fourth Edition, 1995); revised Introduction to Law for North Carolinians (Second Edition, 2000); edited and revised Notary Public Guidebook for North Carolina (Ninth Edition, 2004); and researched and published on juvenile curfews. Thornburg became the School's senior associate dean in 2004, after serving as associate director and associate dean for programs for eight years. His responsibilities include overseeing faculty recruitment and welfare, assisting with the day-to-day School management, and program development and oversight. He is a member of the North Carolina Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission and serves as chair of its Planning and Standards committee. He was a reporter for the Commission for the Future of Justice and the Courts in North Carolina from 1994 until 1996. Thornburg earned a BA from Earlham College and an MPP and JD from the University of Michigan.

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