Chris Mumma, Executive Director For over a decade, Chris Mumma has served as the Center’s Executive Director. Instrumental in fighting for criminal justice reform in North Carolina, Chris has spearheaded legislation on eyewitness identification, the recording of interrogations, preservation of biological evidence, enhanced support for exonerees, and the establishment of the only Innocence Inquiry Commission in the United States. As the Center’s Executive Director, she also represented Dwayne Dail, Joseph Abbitt, Greg Taylor, Willie Grimes, Larry Lamb, and Joseph Sledge in their successful post-conviction proceedings. Before joining the Center, Chris had a nine-year career in corporate finance at Nortel Networks. She then went on to attend law school and clerk for I. Beverly Lake, Jr., the Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. She is the recipient of the 2007 Tar Heel of the Year Award, the 2008 Business Leader Magazine Pro Bono Impact Award, the 2009 Z. Smith Reynolds Susan Reynolds Award for Advocacy, the 2010 Advocates for Justice Kellie Crabtree Award, and the 2012 Lawyer’s Weekly Women of Justice Public Service Practitioner Award.
Board of Directors
Richard Rosen, Board President
Professor of Law Emeritus, UNC School of Law
Dwayne Dail
North Carolina Exoneree – exonerated in 2007
Anthony Baker
Professor of Law, John Marshall Law School
Greg Taylor
North Carolina Exoneree – exonerated in 2010
Jon Powell
Director, Restorative Justice Clinic, Campbell Law School
Tru Pettigrew
Author and CEO of HERO Group
Jodi Hall
Asst. Professor & Field Dir., Dept. of Social Work, NC State