2022 North Carolina Awards: H. M. “Mickey” Michaux Jr.

Public Service: Honorable H. M. “Mickey” Michaux Jr.
H. M. “Mickey” Michaux Jr. has spent more than 50 years as an activist, businessman and politician. He served in the N.C. House of Representatives from 1973-77 and later from 1983-2019. His time in the state House made him the longest serving member of the body. In 2020, at age 89, he was appointed to temporarily fill a seat in the N.C. Senate. Michaux was instrumental in preparing multiple state budgets as senior House Appropriations Committee chair and held numerous leadership positions in the House. Michaux was appointed in 1977 to serve as a U.S. attorney, becoming the first African American to serve in that role in the South since Reconstruction.

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