Clifton W. Homesley, with over twenty years of legal experience, was born March 25, 1960 in Bremerhaven, West Germany where his father was serving as a Captain in the Judge Advocate General's Corps of the United States Army. Cliff moved to Mooresville in 1962 and has resided there ever since except during his college and law school education.
Cliff has represented his clients before all levels of state court in North Carolina including the North Carolina Court of Appeals and North Carolina Supreme Court. He has appeared before the Federal Court of the Western District of North Carolina.
Cliff concentrates his practice in the areas of complex litigation, business transactions, contract drafting and negotiation, and difficult domestic cases. He also helps clients to bring their commercial real estate transactions to closure. He has special knowledge of the motorsports industry (NASCAR), which thrives in the Lake Norman area, and has represented a number of prominent individuals and teams in that industry. Cliff is qualified to practice in the area of trademark registration and litigation as well.
Cliff attended the Mooresville Graded School District
and graduated from Mooresville Senior High School
in 1978. He was the Student Body President and received
the Outstanding Teenager Award from the Mooresville
Jaycees. He was also a Morehead Scholarship County
nominee.
Cliff graduated in 1982 from UNC-Chapel Hill with a
Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration.
After graduation he worked in a Management Training
program for J.P. Stevens Textiles. Cliff also worked
construction for Port City Electric during breaks from
his schooling.
He left J.P. Stevens to study law and graduated from
Campbell University School of Law in 1986.
Cliff is married to Fariba and they have four children. In 2002, Fariba was named a "Hero of Democracy" by The Charlotte Observer for her work in uncovering misappropriation of funds by the Town's previous library director.
Cliff formed the firm as Managing Partner after leaving another local law firm where he had been for sixteen years.
Cliff, like the other attorneys and employees of the firm, has been very active in the community and the bar. Some examples of his past and present involvement are as follows:
- Friends of the Library - incorporator and board member
- Mooresville Jaycees: Distinguished Service Award winner, President, Chairman of Christmas Parade, Project of the Year
- Lake Norman YMCA: Board of Directors
- Mooresville Downtown Commission: Board Member, Chairman
- South Iredell Chapter of the American Red Cross: Board Member, Chairman
- Iredell Concert Association: Board Member
- Mooresville Community Basketball League: Co-Founder
- 22d District Bar Association: President
- Iredell County Bar Association: President
- Law Practice Management Section of the North Carolina Bar Association: 2002 President, Council Member
- Local Board of Directors for Wachovia: Board Member
- Member, North Carolina Academy of Trial Lawyers
- Member, North Carolina Bar Association
- Spokesperson, Citizens for Open Government
- Member, Federal Magistrate's Selection Committee for the Western District of North Carolina (Charlotte and Asheville)
Bar Admissions:
- North Carolina, 1986
- Western District of North Carolina
- U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit
Education:
- Campbell University Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law, Buies Creek, NC, 1986 J.D.
- University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, 1982 Bachelor of Science in Business Administration