Attorney

  Email: CYounce@ymmlaw.com

  Phone: (336) 379-0123 

Charles P. Younce is a native of Greensboro, North Carolina.  He graduated from Greensboro Senior High School and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he attended law school.  He is also a graduate of the Executive Program of the University of Virginia.

For twenty-two years he was employed by Cone Mills Corporation where he served as Senior Attorney and as Vice President and General Counsel of its Cornwallis Development Co. division.  On January 2, 1986 he entered the private practice of law and is a partner in the Greensboro law firm Younce, Moore & Moseley, LLP.

He began his community involvement with the Red Cross while serving as President of the Young Lawyers Section of the Greensboro Bar Association.  He served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Greensboro Chapter of the Red Cross from 1977-1979, member of the Resolutions Committee at the American National Red Cross Convention in Los Angeles, California in 1980, and currently is a member of the Board of Directors of the Greensboro Chapter.

He is Immediate past Chairman and presently is a member of the Board of Directors of The Nussbaum Center for Entrepreneurship; member, Past Chairman and currently a member of the Board of Directors and Legal Counsel to Goodwill Industries of Central North Carolina; and a member of the Greensboro Sports Council.  He is an Elder at First Presbyterian Church and past Clerk of Session.

He is Past President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the United Way of Greater Greensboro; Past President of the Guilford County Alumni Chapter and former member of the Parents Council and Board of Directors of the General Alumni Association of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Past President and member of the Board of Directors of the United Arts Council, Past Chairman of the Carolina Theater Commission; Past Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Greensboro Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, and served as its Legal Counsel.  He received the 1985 Executive of the Year award from Professional Secretaries International and served as a member of the Board of Directors of North Carolina United Way.

Mr. Younce has also been involved at the Greensboro Day School where he served on the Board of Trustees, Parents Council Board of Directors, Education and Long Range Planning Committees, and various other capacities.
He is also active in The Rotary Club of Greensboro, where he served as President in 1981-1982 and is a Paul Harris Fellow and Rotary Foundation Benefactor.  In 1994-1995 he served as District Governor of Rotary International District 7690.

Mr. Younce has also been active in the Boy Scouts, Junior Achievement, the YMCA, and was a recipient of the Guilford County Outstanding Citizen Award in 1978.  He served in the U.S. Marine Corps.

Professionally, he is a member of the North Carolina State Bar, and the American, North Carolina and Greensboro Bar Associations.  He served as President of the Greensboro Bar Association in 1996-1997, and is past President of the North Carolina 18th Judicial District Bar.  He is a Past Chair of the Senior Lawyers Division, a member of the Executive Committee, and member of the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Bar Association for the term 2003-2006.  He also served as past Chair of the Local Bar Services Committee, was past Chair of the Casemaker Committee, and a member of the Endowment Committee.  He is also a Past Chair of the North Carolina Conference of Bar Presidents of the North Carolina State Bar and is currently a member of the Executive Committee.  He is the recipient of the 2002 Centennial Award presented by the North Carolina Bar Association in conjunction with the Greensboro Bar Association for outstanding and exemplary community service.

Mr. Younce is a member of the bar of the North Carolina Supreme Court, the United States District Courts, Middle, Eastern and Western Districts of North Carolina, the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, the United State Supreme Court, the Interstate Commerce Commission, and the United States Court of International Trade.  He is also a member of the Commercial Panel of the American Arbitration Association, and is a certified Mediator.
Mr. Younce is married to the former Elizabeth Marburger Eichhorn, also a Greensboro native, and they have two daughters and four grandchildren.