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JJulie Dews was born in Albany, Georgia. She received
her B.A. degree, with distinction, from the University of North
Carolina at Asheville in 1974. She received her J.D. from Northeastern
University in Boston, Massachusetts in 1990. Under Northeastern
University School of Law’s unique approach to training law
students for careers in the legal profession, known as Cooperative
Legal Education, students complete a traditional first year of academic
study and then, for the remaining two years, alternate every three
months between working full time as legal interns and attending
classes on a full time basis. The successful completion of four
cooperative work quarters is a graduation requirement for all Northeastern
law students. Ms. Dews completed cooperative work quarters at the
Office of the Public Defender in Asheville, North Carolina, the
firm of Whalen, Hay, Pitts, Hugenschmidt, Devereaux & Belser
in Asheville, North Carolina, and the firm of Goldsmith and Goldsmith
in Marion. She began her practice at Goldsmith and Goldsmith in
1990. Ms. Dews became a partner in the firm in 1993, and in 1997
the firm name was changed to Goldsmith, Goldsmith and Dews, P.A.
Ms. Dews practices mainly in the areas of Social Security disability
and workers’ compensation. She is a member of the National
Organization of Social Security Claimant’s Representatives,
the North Carolina Advocates for Justice, and the North Carolina
and McDowell County Bar Associations. She has served on the boards
of Western Carolinians for Criminal Justice, the McDowell County
Criminal Justice Partnership Program, the McDowell Care Center,
Family Services of McDowell County, and the Human Rights Committee
at Broughton Hospital, and is a former president of the McDowell
County Bar Association. She has four children and seven grandchildren,
and her hobbies include yoga, hiking, and reading.
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