A leader in the North Carolina Bar Association will share advice inspired by her distinguished career and offer encouragement to graduates when she visits Elon University’s main campus to deliver the Commencement address for Elon Law’s Class of 2022.

Greensboro employment attorney Patti Ramseur, president-elect of the North Carolina Bar Association, joins graduates and their families for a ceremony that begins at 10 a.m. on Friday, December 9, in Alumni Gym.

Elon University will confer Juris Doctors on 127 graduates from the only American law school with a curriculum strategically designed to be completed in 2.5 years, allowing graduates to take the February bar exam and begin their careers nearly six months sooner than colleagues from other schools.Visit the Elon Law Commencement website for more information.

Ramseur entered private practice in 2000 with Haynsworth Baldwin Johnson & Greaves and, in 2003, joined Smith Moore Leatherwood LLP, continuing as a partner with the firm when it merged into Fox Rothschild LLP in 2018. She joined Alex Maultsby in 2020 to establish the employment law firm of Ramseur Maultsby LLP, where she focuses her practice on employment litigation and counseling.

Ramseur was unanimously elected by acclamation and will serve the NCBA in 2022-23 as president-elect before her installation next year as the association’s 129th president. She previously served as chair of its Young Lawyers Division and Membership Value Task Force, and she has co-chaired the NCBA Leadership Academy. Ramseur served on the NCBA Board of Governors and North Carolina Bar Foundation Board of Directors in 2014-17.

A native or Burke County, Ramseur graduated with honors from North Carolina State University, and after earning her Juris Doctor from Wake Forest University School of Law, began her legal career as a law clerk to Judge Ralph A. Walker of the North Carolina Court of Appeals.