query: place_of_birth lacy thornburg
supports: Lacy Herman Thornburg ( born December 20 , 1929 ) is an American lawyer and former judge ; he served as the North Carolina attorney general from 1985 to 1993 . After serving in the United States Army , Thornburg attended Mars Hill College when it was a junior college . He then earned a law degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . He practiced law in Webster , North Carolina from 1954 to 1967 , and was meanwhile elected to three terms ( 1961 -- 66 ) in the North Carolina House of Representatives . He was then appointed and later elected as a state superior court judge , serving from 1967 until 1983 . In 1992 , he unsuccessfully ran as a Democrat for governor of North Carolina . He was defeated in the primary by former governor Jim Hunt , who went on to win the general election . In 1995 , President Bill Clinton appointed Thornburg a United States District Court judge for the state 's western district , based in Asheville , North Carolina . He retired on August 31 , 2009 . He is the father of Alan Z. Thornburg and Lacy E. Thornburg , a Harvard - educated orthopaedic surgeon practicing in the Asheville area . A stretch of U.S. Highway 23 in North Carolina is named for Thornburg . North Carolina is a state in the southeastern region of the United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west, Virginia to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. North Carolina is the 28th most extensive and the 9th most populous of the U.S. states. The state is divided into 100 counties. The capital is Raleigh. The most populous municipality is Charlotte, and it is the second largest banking center in the United States after New York City. Eric Himpton Holder Jr. (born January 21, 1951) served as the 82nd Attorney General of the United States, from 2009 to 2015. Holder, serving in the administration of President Barack Obama, is the first African American to hold the position of U.S. Attorney General. The United States Attorney General (A.G.) is the head of the United States Department of Justice per , concerned with legal affairs, and is the chief law enforcement officer and chief lawyer of the United States government. The office is currently held by Dana J. Boente, who assumed the office on January 30, 2017 after the firing of acting Attorney General Sally Yates. The attorney general serves as a member of the Cabinet of the President of the United States and is the only cabinet officer who does not have the title of secretary. In most common law jurisdictions, the attorney general (sometimes abbreviated as AG) or attorney-general (pluralized as attorneys general or attorneys-general, as "general" is a postpositive adjective) is the main legal advisor to the government, and in some jurisdictions they may also have executive responsibility for law enforcement, prosecutions or even responsibility for legal affairs generally. In practice, the extent to which the attorney-general personally provides legal advice to the government varies between jurisdictions, and even between individual office-holders within the same jurisdiction, often depending on the level and nature of the office-holder's prior legal experience. The Attorney General of North Carolina is the elected head of the state's Department of Justice. The North Carolina constitution stipulates that the Attorney General's duties include providing legal representation and advice to all state agencies, though the extent of this duty was called into question when United States Attorney General Eric Holder suggested that state Attorneys General should not squander their state's resources in defense of laws they know to be unconstitutional. The state constitution also holds that, in defense of the public interest, the Attorney General may initiate legal action or intervene in proceedings before any courts, regulatory officers, agencies or bodies  either state or federal  on behalf of the state's agencies and citizens. The Attorney General also renders legal opinions, either formally or informally, upon all questions of law submitted by the General Assembly, the Governor or any other state officer.
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answer: charlotte