Carol L. Teeter, the first full-time legal aid attorney in North Carolina and the founder of the Legal Aid Society in Winston-Salem, has died.
Teeter, 77, died Wednesday at the Kate B. Reynolds Hospice Home.
He served as the Legal Aid Society's director from 1962 to 1966 when he left to enter private law practice.
He remained on the nonprofit agency's board of directors and in 1968 he was elected the board's president.
The society provides legal assistance to the community's poor.
Thorns Craven, the director of Legal Aid from 1970 to 1991, said that Teeter's support of the agency even after he went into private practice was important because in the late 1960s there were many people opposed to Legal Aid and its mission.
"Carol kept his head and said that Legal Aid was something that we needed," Craven said.
In 1967 Teeter was appointed as a judge in the Kernersville Recorder's Court. The Recorder's Court was abolished when the state took over the administration of the courts in the late 1960s.
Teeter is survived by his wife, Kay Long Teeter; daughter Julie Teeter Haymore and husband Bobby; son Stuart Lamar Teeter and wife Kim. He also is survived by four grandsons.
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