Margaret Currin

Diligence, LLC announces that lifetime NAFUSA member and former NAFUSA President Margaret Person Currin has become a founding member of its team.  

Diligence, LLC (www.DiligenceDone.net) is a national independent investigatory company specifically dedicated to assist public and private organizations in crisis to meet their obligations to their many constituents through transparent, thorough, timely, and professionally-conducted fact-finding investigations and reviews to restore public confidence in their operations in a prompt and discrete manner.   

Margaret served as United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina from 1988-1993.  Since that time, she has been active in her service to NAFUSA including having served several terms on its Board of Directors and all offices in the leadership chain, culminating with President in 2003-2004.

For 31 years, she was a legal educator and law school administrator at Campbell University School of Law.  Over the years, in addition to her teaching responsibilities, she served as Assistant Dean for External Relations; Associate Dean for Academic, Student, and Administrative Affairs; and founding Director of Campbell’s nationally-recognized Externship Program.  

Margaret has been a member of the North Carolina Rules Review Commission since 2011 and has served as chairman and first vice-chairman.  The Rules Review Commission is the executive agency created by the General Assembly that is charged with reviewing and approving rules adopted by state agencies. She serves on the North Carolina Bar Association’s BarCARES Board of Directors and on several North Carolina Bar Association councils. She was elected to the Wake County Bar Association/Tenth Judicial District Board of Directors in 2015.  Further, she has served on and chaired the Wake County Board of Elections, and served on the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) Committee with the North Carolina State Board of Elections. She also gained significant experience as a Senatorial legislative director and counsel on Capitol Hill. 

In recognition of her exemplary service to the State of North Carolina and her community, in 2015 Margaret was awarded the Order of the Long Leaf Pine, the most prestigious award conferred by the Governor of North Carolina. 

Margaret graduated with honors from Campbell University School of Law where she was a member of the Law Review Editorial Board.  She also engaged in graduate legal studies at the Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C.  She received her undergraduate education at Meredith College, Raleigh, North Carolina.