Ruffin poole biography books

          “Family stories grow to be bigger than the experiences themselves,” writes Judy Goldman in her memoir, Losing My Sister.

        1. “Family stories grow to be bigger than the experiences themselves,” writes Judy Goldman in her memoir, Losing My Sister.
        2. Judy Goldman's first novel, The Slow Way Back, won the Sir Walter Raleigh Fiction Award and the Mary Ruffin Poole First Work of Fiction Award.
        3. My first novel, The Slow Way Back, was a finalist for SIBA's Novel of the Year, winner of the Sir Walter Raleigh Fiction Award and the Mary Ruffin Poole Award.
        4. Ruffin Poole Award for First Fiction.
        5. "Family stories grow to be bigger than the experiences themselves," writes Judy Goldman in her memoir, Losing My Sister.

          6. My first novel, The Slow Way Back, was a finalist for SIBA's Novel of the Year, winner of the Sir Walter Raleigh Fiction Award and the Mary Ruffin Poole Award.!

          White-Collar Crime

          Young Lawyer's Soaring Career Is Interrupted by Federal Indictment

          By Martha Neil

          After he graduated from a North Carolina law school in 1998, Charles Ruffin Poole’s legal career clearly was on an upward trajectory for which the sky seemed to be the limit.

          Hired to work in the state attorney general’s office, he quickly gained a much higher political profile when former attorney general Mike Easley, was elected governor after reportedly helping to raise funds for his boss’s campaign.

          In January 2001, at age 28, with two years of practice experience, he became the new governor’s deputy press secretary. A month later, he was promoted to a special assistant post and soon became known as the governor’s go-to guy in his role as special counsel.

          When Easley left office early this year after serving two terms as governor and joined McGuireWoods, Poole became a partner there, too.

          Now, however, the 37-year-old lawyer’s strato