Lawyer Bio : Kimberly H. Stogner

Kimberly H. Stogner

Winston-Salem

Kim Stogner is an experienced trust and estates attorney, having assisted hundreds of clients with estate planning, trust, tax and probate law issues. She works with clients to resolve trust and estate disputes, resolve tax-related problems and create multi-generational estate and business succession plans.

Kim has consistently been ranked as one of North Carolina’s top trust and estates attorneys, ranking in Woodward/White Inc’s “Best Lawyers in America” for each of the past three years and among Business North Carolina’s “North Carolina Legal Elite” each of the past six years. Law and Politics magazine has named her a “Super Lawyer” every year since 2006 and Law and Politics also has named her one of North Carolina’s top 50 female lawyers in 2007-09.

She is a frequent author and presenter on trust and estate topics, including gift tax issues, powers of attorney and will drafting. Kim is a Fellow in the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.

In addition to her extensive experience in trust and estates law, Kim also brings a business background to her practice. Before attending law school, she worked as a personal trust officer for two national banking corporations. She also has earned the Certified Financial Planner (CFP) designation.

Kim is active in a number of charities and civic organizations in Forsyth County.

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Professional Activities

Admitted to the bar: 1994, North Carolina.

Member, Forsyth County and North Carolina Bar Associations; Council Member, Fiduciary Law Section; Trustee, Health Benefit Trust of North Carolina Bar Association; Chair, Wake Forest Planned Giving Advisory Council; Member, Winston-Salem Estate Planning Council; Certified Financial Planner (Board Certified Specialist in Estate Planning and Probate Law, North Carolina State Board of Legal Specialization.)

Civic Activities

United Way of Forsyth County, Board of Directors; Crosby Scholars Program, Board of Directors; First Citizens Bank, Board of Directors; United Way of Forsyth County Foundation, founding board member and Executive Committee member; Crisis Control Ministry, past board chair; Children's Museum of Winston-Salem, founding board member and current Nominating Committee member; March of Dimes, past board and committee member; Wake Forest University School of Law National Law Fund Committee, past board member; Winston-Salem Downtown Rotary Club, member; Junior League of Winston-Salem, sustaining member; Hope Presbyterian Church, member.

Education

B.A., 1986, Wake Forest University; J.D., 1994, Wake Forest University, cum laude; Editor, Wake Forest Law Review, 1993-1994; Member, Order of Barristers; Member, Moot Court Board, 1992-1994

Prior Legal Experience

Member, Vaughn Perkinson Ehlinger Moxley & Stogner, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.