Trey graduated with bachelor’s in sciences from North Carolina State University and then taught high school math for four years in Wake County Public Schools. After teaching, Trey attended Campbell University’s School of Law as the Janette Soles Nelson Public Service Scholar.

During law school, Trey interned with Judge Lucy Inman at the North Carolina Court of Appeals and Judge Kenneth D. Bell at the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina. Additionally, Trey was the Editor-in-Chief of The Campbell Law Review and worked for two years as a teaching scholar for the Legal Research and Writing program at Campbell University’s School of Law. Trey graduated law school magna cum laude and received the 2021 Scholarship & Leadership Award from the American Law Institute CLE and the Chief Justice I. Beverly Lake, Jr. Constitutional Law Award for an article that he wrote on state constitutional law issues surrounding academic tracking of public-school students, which was later published by the North Carolina Central University’s Law Review.

• Civil Litigation

• Local Government

• Business Law

• Probate

• Guardianship/Fiduciary

• Real Estate

• N.C State University (B.S., Secondary Mathematics Education, 2014)

• Campbell University, Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law (J.D., magna cum laude, 2021)

Community Involvement:

• New Bern Board of Adjustment, Ward 1 Appointee

• Litigation Council Member at the North Carolina Bar Association (2024-27)

• Board Member of Craven Community Foundation (An Affiliate of the North Carolina Community Foundation)

• Member of the North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys (Member of Government Liability Practice Group)

• Treasurer/Secretary of the Craven County Bar Association (2023-24)

• Advisory Board Member for SECU’s Howell Road Branch

• Programs Committee Member of the N.C. Bar Foundation (2022-23)

Bar Admissions:

• N.C. State Courts

• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of N.C.

• U.S. District Court for the Middle District of N.C.

• U.S. District Court for the Western District of N.C.

• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Publications:

• Article: Checks and Imbalances: 2024 Local Government Case Law Update, The Resource, N.C. Ass’n of Defense Attorneys (June 2024).

• Article: Color-Code Curricula: How North Carolina’s Tracking Regime Creates Micro-Segregation and Violates the State’s Constitution, 44 N.C. CENTRAL L. REV. 29 (2022).

• Policy Brief: “Color-Coded Curriculum – How North Carolina’s Academic Tracking Regime Creates Micro-Segregation and What Our State Can Do to Remedy It”, Center for Racial Equity in Education (2022)

• Comment: Protecting Personal Data: A Survey of Consumer Protections Throughout North Carolina’s Identity Theft Protection Act, 42 CAMPBELL L. REV. 191 (2020).

Presentations

• Ethics for North Carolina Local Government Officials, July 2024.

• Checks & Imbalances: 2024 Local Government Case Law Update, North Carolina Public Risk Managers Association’s Annual Conference, September 2024.

• Tully & Mole’: The Erosion of Public Sector At-Will Employment, North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys’ Government Attorneys “Shop-Talk”, January 2024.

• Fruits of their Own Labor: How the Courts are Stomping Local Governments’ Grapes, North Carolina Public Risk Managers Association’s Annual Conference, September 2023.

• Employment Law: Legal Liabilities for Law Enforcement, North Carolina Police Executives Association’s Annual Conference, July 2023.