Six months after winning her NC Supreme Court election, Justice Allison Riggs was finally sworn in to office Tuesday by her fellow justice, Anita Earls.
The ceremony took place in the former NC House chamber at the state capitol, the site where the legislature voted in 1861 to secede at the beginning of the Civil War.
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