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Attorney General Roy Cooper works hard every day
to make North Carolina a safe place to live and raise a family, and his
lifetime of service shows it.
 He
was sworn in as Attorney General in 2001 with a promise to fight
crime, to advocate for victims and to stop con artists from
ripping off our state’s most vulnerable residents and
he has kept that promise. He has expanded DNA technology, and
opened the first computer forensics lab at the SBI to catch
murderers, rapists and child predators.
He has provided law enforcement and teacher
training to make schools safer and his Address Confidentiality Program
is helping to protect victims of domestic violence. Since he has become
Attorney General, he has recovered more than $60 million in restitution
for consumers and he has stopped scams and frauds throughout North
Carolina, saving consumers millions more.
Before he became Attorney General, Roy Cooper had
already set a high standard by pushing through tough crime laws and
consumer protections during his 14 years of service in the state
legislature where he was Senate Majority Leader and chairman of the
Judiciary and Ethics committees.
His work as a state legislator included writing
the Crime Victims Bill of Rights to give victims a say in the criminal
justice system. He gave North Carolina the nation’s toughest
money lending law to protect homeowners from enormous fees and unfair
hidden charges. He revamped the juvenile justice system to make
sentences tougher and keep troubled kids off the streets.
 Roy
Cooper was born in Nash County, NC in 1957, attended public
schools and worked summers cropping tobacco. His mother, Beverly
Cooper, worked as a school teacher and his father, Roy Cooper
Jr., farmed and practiced law in Nashville, the county seat.
 He
attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as
a Morehead Scholar, and after graduating from law school he
went back home to practice law with his family law firm. As
a result of his performance as a courtroom attorney, Martindale-Hubbell
awarded him an AV rating, its highest mark.
He has been involved in a full array of church and civic activities.
He is a Sunday School teacher and has served as an elder and
deacon. He tutors children at a local elementary school and
has led fundraising drives for the March of Dimes, Barium Springs
Home for Children and the United Way.
Roy Cooper and his wife Kristin have three
daughters, Hilary, 22, Natalie, 13, and Claire, 11, all of whom attend
North Carolina schools.
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