After serving 16 years in the North Carolina House of Representatives, 16 years as a North Carolina Superior Court Judge and five years as a North Carolina State Senator, Sen. Milton F. “Toby” Fitch will be the head of our legal department.

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Fitch is a legend. He, along with Congressman G.K. Butterfield and newly retired Superior Court Judge Quinton Sumner, founded the first African-American law firm east of I-95 in North Carolina back in the 1970s, where they taught many young graduating attorneys how to perform in the courtroom. He ran for a NC State House seat and won in 1985, maintaining his law firm as he worked as a House member. 

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A longtime civil rights activist, Fitch’s fight began in a segregated Wilson, NC, where he was born. He went on to protest segregation and knew Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. personally and worked alongside him. Fitch and his father, along with other SCLC members, were preparing for King to come to Wilson for a protest right after King left Memphis. Unfortunately, King was assassinated before he could get back to Wilson.

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