Complex sentence: He earned his law degree from Wake Forest University in 1984 and worked briefly in private practice before being named to North Carolina District Court in 1991, Superior Court in 1994, and finally to the state Supreme Court in 1998.
Split into simpler sentences: He earned his law degree from Wake Forest University in 1984. He became a Superior Court judge in 1994, and was finally elected to the state Supreme Court in 1998.