Harold Brent McKnight

Harold Brent McKnight (February 20, 1952 – November 27, 2004) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina. Education and career McKnight was born in Mooresville, North Carolina. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1974; a Master of Arts degree from Magdalen College, Oxford University in 1976 where he attended as a Rhodes Scholar; and a Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1980. While a student at UNC, he spent the summer of 1973 sifting through 1100 boxes of documents searching for information to aid the 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. Federal judicial service