Professor of Law
A.B., 1947, J.D., 1950, Harvard University; LL.M., 1959, Duke University. Everett is a native of Durham, North Carolina who in 1950 – 1951 taught law at Duke Law School, then served as a judge advocate in the Air Force and thereafter was a commissioner of the United States Court of Military Appeals. In 1955 he returned to Durham to enter a general law practice, in which he continued for twenty-five years. From 1961 to 1964, he also served as a counsel to the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee. In 1980 he became Chief Judge of the United States Court of Military Appeals (now United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces) In September 1990 he retired from that position to become a Senior Judge of the Court and resumed law teaching and practice. He has been active in the affairs of the North Carolina Bar, the American Bar Association, and the community of Durham. He has long served as a Commissioner on Uniform State laws and has been active in various law reform efforts and in numerous Bar organizations at local, state, and national levels. He has published on many legal topics, notably military justice, criminal procedure and redistricting. His teaching at Duke University began in 1950; and since 1957 he has been a member of the Duke Law faculty, having received tenure in 1967. In 1993 he founded the Center on Law, Ethics and National Security at Duke University Law School. From 1992 – 2000 he participated actively as a plaintiff and attorney for the plaintiffs in North Carolina’s congressional redistricting litigation; and in that connection he argued four times before the Supreme Court. He received the Judge John J. Parker Award from the North Carolina Bar Association in 2004; and in 2006 was inducted into the North Carolina Bar Association’s General Practice Hall of Fame.