Harold Brent McKnight

Who was Harold Brent McKnight?

Harold Brent McKnight was a United States federal judge.

Born in Mooresville, North Carolina, McKnight received a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1974; an M.A. from Magdalen College, Oxford University in 1976; and a J.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1980.

While a student at UNC, he spent the summer of 1973 sifting through 1100 boxes of documents searching for information to aid be Senate Select Committee on Watergate.

He was an assistant district attorney in North Carolina from 1982 to 1988, and a District judge in the 26th North Carolina Judicial District Court from 1989 to 1993.

Judge McKnight was also a visiting lecturer at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte from 1992 to 2003, and an adjunct assistant professor at Wingate University from 1994 to 2003.

McKnight became a U.S. Magistrate Judge in the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina in 1993, serving in that capacity until 2003. He was nominated to the federal bench by President George W. Bush on April 28, 2003, to fill a new seat created by Congress.