Larry Womble
June 6, 1941: Womble is born in Winston-Salem.
1959: Womble graduates from Atkins High School. He goes on to get his bachelor's degree from Winston-Salem Teachers College (now Winston-Salem State University), a master's degree in education from UNC Greensboro, and an education specialist's degree from Appalachian State University.
1977: Womble makes his first run for the Winston-Salem Board of Aldermen, but loses in a Democratic primary runoff.
1981: Womble, by now an assistant principal at Old Town Elementary School, wins election to the Winston-Salem Board of Aldermen representing the Southeast Ward.
1991: Womble and two other men are indicted on federal charges of conspiring to extort donations from businessmen in exchange for favorable votes on zoning decisions and contracts. Womble stays on the city board.
May 15, 1992: Womble is acquitted.
1993: Womble loses his seat on the city board to Robert Nordlander, but it is close: Womble gets 48 percent of the vote to Nordlander's 52 percent.
1994: Womble runs unopposed for his first N.C. House term.
2003: At Womble's urging, the N.C. House formally ends a program that for decades allowed the involuntary sterilization of people who had been deemed unfit to reproduce. Womble works to get compensation for victims over the following years.
2007: Womble first introduces what later becomes law in 2009 as the Racial Justice Act, which allows for people on death row to use statistical evidence that race may have played a factor in their punishment.
October 2011: Womble wins support from House Speaker Thom Tillis, R-Mecklenburg, for compensating sterilization victims.
Dec. 2, 2011: Womble is critically injured in a head-on collision in which the other driver is killed. Womble later tests negative for alcohol use.
Feb. 7, 2011: Womble leaves Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center to go to a rehabilitation center.
Feb. 21: Womble announces he won't run for re-election, and endorses Earline Parmon, D-Forsyth, for the N.C. Senate District 32 seat he had planned to seek.
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