Tim Moore (North Carolina politician)
| Tim Moore | |
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| Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives | |
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Assumed office January 14, 2015 |
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| Preceded by | Thom Tillis |
| Member of the North Carolina House of Representatives from the 111th district |
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Assumed office January 29, 2003 |
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| Preceded by | Andy Dedmon |
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October 2, 1970 Kings Mountain, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
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Campbell University University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Oklahoma City University |
| Religion | Baptist |
Timothy Keith Moore (born October 2, 1970, Kings Mountain, NC) is an American attorney and politician, representing the 111th State House District in the North Carolina General Assembly. He was elected as Speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives in 2015, the youngest person to achieve this position. The Republican member represents constituents including residents of Cleveland County. Tim Moore was first elected to the 111th District in 2002, starting his service in 2003; in 2015 he was in his seventh term.
Tim Moore was born in 1970 near Kings Mountain, North Carolina in the western part of the state. Moore worked at the state General Assembly as a teenage page and later he interned for a state senator.
Moore first attended Campbell College, where he joined the College Republicans. After two years he transferred to University of North Carolina, where he completed a B.A. in 1992. He was active in the student government at both colleges. At UNC he opposed funding for a gay and lesbian student association, arguing its members lived a practice against state law (which has since been declared unconstitutional by the United States Supreme Court). He took a fight to the UNC student supreme court in an effort to add more members to the Student Congress. Moore studied law at the Oklahoma City University School of Law, graduating in 1995.
Moore settled in Kings Mountain with his wife and two sons. Moore's father is a member of the Kings Mountain City Council, and a cousin chairs the Cleveland County commission.
For more than a decade after law school, including after his election to the state House, Moore worked in a law practice in Shelby. In 2009 he opened his own practice in general law in the city of Kings Mountain. His clients in western North Carolina have included the Catawba Indian tribe, which proposed opening a casino on their reservation. Moore is admitted to practice before all state courts of North Carolina, U.S. District Courts seated in North Carolina, the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals, and the District of Columbia.
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