About
Prior to joining the firm in 2020, Marshall served as an Assistant Federal Public Defender for the Eastern District of North Carolina for six years. One of those years was spent on detail to the United States Sentencing Commission in Washington, D.C., where he was the Visiting Assistant Federal Public Defender to the Commission and participated in the Commission’s role in promulgating and amending the United States Sentencing Guidelines and educated practitioners and the public concerning the use and application of the guidelines.
Marshall is a Board Certified Specialist in Federal and State Criminal Law. He is licensed to practice law in the State of North Carolina and has also been admitted to practice before courts in the Eastern District of North Carolina, the United State District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina and the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Marshall’s practice focuses on criminal defense in both federal and state courts and civil litigation.
Education
- Campbell University, Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law
- Juris Doctor, 2014, cum laude
- Campbell Law Review, Articles Editor
- Davidson College
- Bachelor of Arts, History (2011)
- Varsity Football Letterman
Honors & Distinctions
- Board Certified Specialist in Federal and State Criminal Law, NC State Bar Board of Legal Specialization
- Campbell Law Review Write-On Competition Winner (2012)
- Recipient of Nancy Bryan and Duncan McLaughin Faircloth Law Scholarship (2014)
- Webster Scholars Program (2012)
- Selected to serve as Visiting Assistant Federal Public Defender to the United States Sentencing Commission (2018–19)
- United States Sentencing Commission’s Practitioners Advisory Group – Fourth Circuit Representative
- North Carolina Commission on Indigent Defense Services, Member (appointed March 30, 2023)
Bar & Affiliations
- North Carolina State Bar
- First Judicial District Bar
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina
- Member of the Court’s Criminal Justice Act Attorney Panel
- United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina
- United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
- North Carolina Bar Association
- Federal Bar Association – Eastern District of North Carolina Chapter
Personal & Community
- Lettered in Varsity Football at Davidson College
- St. Paul’s Episcopal Church – Edenton, NC
- The Links at Mulberry Hill – Board of Directors