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2009 Century Club to Feature Former State Senator Cal Cunningham

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Our Century Club dinner is coming up August 22 at Market on Main in Hickory. The evening features a buffet dinner, cash bar, and keynote address by Cal Cunningham, former NC Senator and an Iraqi war veteran.

A Lexington native, Cal Cunningham recently returned home from a one-year tour in Iraq as a Captain and paratrooper with United States Army, Judge Advocate General's Corps. It was his second, year-long mobilization in four years.
 
During 2008, Cal served as the senior trial counsel, Multi-National Corps-Iraq where he pioneered an effort with the U.S. Department of Justice to prosecute contractor misconduct in Iraq . In June, he led the first court-martial of a contractor under military law since 1968. He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for his service and was recognized in May by the Army Chief of Staff with the General Douglas MacArthur Leadership Award.
In addition to a Juris Doctor from UNC Law, Cal 's education includes a Masters of Science from the London School of Economics. He also holds a Bachelors degree with Honors from UNC-Chapel Hill. At UNC he served as the Student Body President and later as the Chief Justice of the Student Supreme Court. In early 2007, Cal traveled Europe as a Marshall Memorial Fellow and met with European government leaders on issues of Islamic extremism and counterterrorism.
 
In November 2000, Cal was elected one of North Carolina 's youngest state Senators, representing Davidson, Rowan and Iredell Counties . He served as Vice Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and on the Senate's education committees. He did not run for re-election after redistricting in 2002. He has since served on the Executive Committee of the North Carolina Democratic Party and has been nationally recognized twice as a "rising star" in Democratic politics.
 
In his law practice, Cal is a litigation attorney with the Winston-Salem office of Kilpatrick Stockton. In 2005, Cal served with the 18th Airborne Corps as a Special Assistant United States Attorney, prosecuting crimes committed on Fort Bragg .   He was recently honored by the North Carolina State Bar for volunteering his legal services to victims of domestic violence.
 
He serves as a Governor's appointee to the Board of Trustees of the Davidson County Community College , as a public member of the North Carolina Banking Commission and has served as an Elder of the First Presbyterian Church of Lexington.
 
Cal and his wife Elizabeth ran their 6th marathon in Lake Tahoe in the fall of 2007. They have two children - Caroline (7) and Will (5) - and a Golden Retriever named Davidson.

For more information:
Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cal_Cunningham
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/cal_cunningham#/
Blog: http://thefocalpoints.blogspot.com/