North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Walter Dalton will be a guest speaker at the North Carolina Central University School of Law tomorrow, Wednesday, October 28, 2009. Dalton will address student members of the law school’s Public Interest Law Organization during a noontime luncheon.

Dalton received his law degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, developed a successful private law practice and spent 12 years in the State Senate before his election to the Office of Lieutenant Governor in 2008.

By virtue of office, Dalton presides over the Senate and sits on both the State Board of Education and the State Board of Community Colleges. Dalton has been a long-time advocate of improving public schools and preparing students to compete in the global economy. He chairs the Joining Our Businesses and Schools (JOBS) Commission, which aims to align the curricula of early college high schools more closely with the workforce needs of the economic development regions in which they are found and enhance science, technology, engineering and math education (STEM) in the public schools.

As NCCU celebrates its Centennial, NCCU’s Law School is celebrating its 70th Anniversary. This year, the National Jurist Magazine ranked NCCU Law the number one best value law school in the country whereas the Princeton Review listed it among its top law schools in the country and the third leading in terms of the diversity of its faculty.