Franklin Freeman is a lawyer and public official in North Carolina, who is currently serving as senior aide for Governmental Affairs to Governor Mike Easley. North Carolina ( is a state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States Michael Francis (Mike Easley (born March 23, 1950) is the governor of the U [1]
Freeman, a native of Surry County, North Carolina, has been a prosecutor and was also a close advisor to former state Governor Jim Hunt. Surry County is a County located in the US state of North Carolina. James Baxter Hunt Jr (born May 16, 1937 in Wilson NC) is a former four-term Democratic Governor of the U He served as Secretary of the state Department of Correction during Hunt's 1993-1997 term. Freeman then became Hunt's chief of staff and legislative counsel. [2]
Hunt later appointed Freeman to fill a vacancy on the North Carolina Supreme Court, but Freeman was defeated in a bid to be elected to a full term on the Court in 2000. The Supreme Court of North Carolina is the state's highest Appellate court. Under Gov. Easley, Freeman assumed a role similar to his post under Hunt.