Gary Bunting Tash

Professional

"Board Certified Specialist" in family law by The North Carolina State Bar since 1989
Rated "AV" by Martindale-Hubbell law directory since 1986
Listed in "The Best Lawyers in America" in family law by Woodward/White since 1995
Listed in "The Top 100 Super Lawyers" in North Carolina by Law & Politics magazine in 2006
Listed in “Legal Elite - North Carolina’s Most Effective Lawyers” by Business North Carolina magazine since 2006
Experienced family law Mediator (over 250 cases mediated with 94% settlement rate) since 2002
Certified family law Arbitrator by the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers since 2000
A Founding Member of Tash & Kurtz, PLLC, Family Law Attorneys, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Member, North Carolina Dispute Resolution Commission, 2007 -
District Court Judge, Twenty-first Judicial District of North Carolina 1976-1983
Assistant District Attorney, Twenty-first Prosecutorial District of North Carolina 1973-1976
Adjunct Professor of Law, Wake Forest University School of Law (juvenile law 1987-1997) (family law 2007)
Fellow, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers since 1999
Member, North Carolina State Bar Board of Legal Specialization 1994-2002
Chair, North Carolina State Bar Family Law Specialty Committee 1992-1994
Member, Local Rules Advisory Committee for the District Court of Forsyth County 2007 -
Chair, Forsyth County Equitable Distribution Committee 1994-1999
Chair, Forsyth County Juvenile Court Study Committee 1999-2001
Presenter at numerous CLE seminars on topic of "child custody"
Member, North Carolina Bar Association (family law section) since 1971
Member, Forsyth County Bar Association since 1971

Community and Fraternity Service

Children's Law Center of Central North Carolina (board of directors) 2005-
Forsyth Futures (board of directors) 1998-2004
Winston-Salem Jaycees (board of directors) 1974-1986
Jaycees International Senator since 1985
Forsyth County Juvenile Justice Council (vice-president) 1976-1986
Ruth Van Hoy Service to Youth Award 1983
Forsyth County Mental Health Association (board of directors) 1978-1982
Bell Outstanding Volunteer Award 1981
Forsyth County Youth Opportunity Homes (past board of directors)
Forsyth County YMCA (past board of directors)
Forsyth County Court Volunteers (past board of directors)
Child Guidance Clinic (past board of directors)
Charlie Thomason Outstanding Service to Youth Award 1980
Wake Forest University Law Alumni Council 1997-2000
First Presbyterian Church of Winston-Salem

Elder, Deacon and former Chair of the Christian Discipleship Committee

Grand Sage (International President) of Sigma Pi Fraternity, International 1982-1984
Trustee, Sigma Pi Educational Foundation, Inc. 1986-1988, 1998-2006
Chapter Director, Sigma Pi Fraternity chapter at Wake Forest University 1972-1997
Member, Alumni Advisory Board for Sigma Pi Fraternity chapter at Wake Forest University 2000-
Member, Alumni Advisory Board for Sigma Pi Fraternity chapter at the University of Virginia 2004-

Personal

Born on August 10, 1946 in Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey
University of Virginia, B.A. (history) 1968
Wake Forest University School of Law, J.D. 1971

Case Notes Editor, Wake Forest Law Review

Justice (President), Timberlake Chapter, Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, International

Married in 1969 to Carol Moseley Tash, who has been his paralegal since 1991
Two Grown Children: Ginny Tash Inscore and Andrew Moseley Tash.