Sharon is a 1981 graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill  and an 1987  Honors graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law.  She is licensed to practice law in both North Carolina and Georgia and has had an “AV” rating from Martindale-Hubble for more than ten years.  She started practice in Winston Salem at Petree, Stockton and Robinson in medical malpractice defense before joining the Dameron & Burgin law firm in 1991. She is Managing Partner of Dameron, Burgin, Parker & Jackson, P.A.

Sharon’s practice is concentrated in the areas of Business Law, Estate Planning and  Administration, Health Care Law, and Educational Law.  She has two decades experience in medical malpractice defense and civil litigation and is certified as a Civil Superior Court Mediator. 

Sharon is legal counsel for the McDowell County Board of Education, the Rutherford-Polk McDowell District Board of Health, Hospice of McDowell County, Inc.,  St. Luke’s Hospital, Inc., and other health care organizations.  She performs litigation services for medical professional liability insurance carriers, including AIG, Lexington Insurance Company, MAG Mutual, Medical Protective, Zurich, Hudson Insurance, Farmers Insurance and St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance.

Since 1999, Sharon has been elected to the Board of Directors of Lawyers Mutual Insurance Company, Inc. and currently serves on the Finance/Audit Committee and the Claims Committee.

Active in the North Carolina Bar Association [NCBA], she served on their Board of Governors from 1992 to 1995 and was Co-Chair with Dorthy Bernholz of the NCBA’s Commission of the Status of Women in the Legal Profession  from 1990 to 1993 and they were awarded the Gwyneth B. Davis Award from the North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys for outstanding Contribution in the promotion of women attorneys in the legal profession and the rights of women under the law.

In the past 20 years, Sharon has worked on numerous NCBA committees, including Long Rang Planning, Women in the Profession, Quality of Life, and Personnel, and has served on the Section Councils for both the Litigation and Health Law Sections. She has served on the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys (1997-2001), the Center for Death Penalty Litigation (1995-1996), and Catawba Valley Legal Services (1995-2001; President 2000-2001).  She is currently the Secretary-Treasurer of the McDowell County Bar Association.

In addition to the ABA and NCBA, she is a member of the North Carolina Association of Defense Attorneys, the North Carolina Association of Women Attorneys, the North Carolina Association of Hospital Attorneys, and the North Carolina Association of School Board Attorneys. She has held long-term membership in both the American Bar Association and the North Carolina Bar Association  and their Sections on Litigation, Health Care Law, Dispute Resolution and Education Law.  In addition, she is currently a member of the ABA and NCBA Sections on Business Law, Estate Planning and Elder Law.

Sharon is the Chairperson of The McDowell Foundation, an affiliate of the Community Foundations of Western North Carolina [CFWNC] and has worked on the Grants Committee of Women For Women, a women’s giving initiative of CFWNC. She has volunteered as a Guardian Ad Litem for abused and neglected children,  defended Death Penalty cases, served on the Board of Directors of the AGAPE House which is a group home for trouble children and provided hundreds of hours of pro bono legal counsel to Hospice of McDowell County in more than 13 years. 


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