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Katherine S. Holliday
Practice Focus—Family Law; Juvenile Law

Originally from Charlotte, Katie is a 1970 Wake Forest University graduate who received her M.Ed. degree in counseling from UNC-Charlotte in 1973. She was a high school guidance counselor until entering Duke Law School, where she graduated in 1980 as a member of the Order of the Coif. After law school, Katie clerked for U.S. District Court Judge James B. McMillan in Charlotte.

Although she first joined James, McElroy & Diehl in 1981, she left in 1984 to pursue advocacy for children and to raise her own three children. For thirteen years Katie represented children in Juvenile Court and custody cases and was the director of the Children’s Law Center in Charlotte for ten years before returning to the firm in 1997. Katie has been associated with the National Association of Counsel for Children for fifteen years, first as a board member and then as president, and currently serves as legal counsel to the organization.

She has been active in the North Carolina Bar Association and helped found the Juvenile Justice and Children’s Rights Section, serving as its first chairperson. She has also been active in the Mecklenburg County Bar Association and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Mecklenburg County Bar Foundation. Katie helped found the Mecklenburg County Collaborative Family Law Practice Group in 2001 and promotes the collaborative law process as an option in her full time family law practice.