Bryan School Faculty
"The law: It has honoured us; may we honour it." - Daniel Webster
Eloise McCain Hassell hails from Wilson, North Carolina. She is married to N.C. Special Superior Court Judge Robby Hassell, and they are the proud parents of two girls. Eloise graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill with a B.A. in History and graduated from Wake Forest University School of Law with a Juris Doctorate.
Eloise has served the legal profession as an Agency Legal Specialist in the N.C. Department of Human Resources, as an Assistant District Attorney in Raleigh, N.C. and as an Assistant Public Defender in both Greenville, N.C. and in Greensboro, N.C. Eloise serves as a Preceptor at Elon Law School where she has also served as an Adjunct Faculty member. Eloise is a Certified N.C. Superior Court Mediator, a Certified N.C. District Court Arbitrator, a Certified Mediator in Matters before the Clerk of Superior Court and a Certified Postal Service REDRESS Mediator. Fall semester 2007 she served as an Adjunct Professor at Elon Law School. She serves as a Preceptor for Elon Law school first year students, and was awarded the 2011 Elon Law School Student Bar Association Outstanding Service to Students Award. Eloise is the Former Chair of the Dispute Resolution Section of the Greensboro Bar Association and the Former President of the Greensboro Young Lawyers.
Eloise has received the 2006 UNCG Gladys Strawn Bullard Award for Faculty Service, the 2003 UNCG Alumni Teaching Excellence Award, and the 2010, 2006, 2002, and 1998 UNCG Bryan School Teaching Excellence Award. She was awarded the 2010 National Society of Leadership and Success (Sigma Alpha Pi) Excellence in Teaching Award and the 1999 UNCG Greek Leadership Educator of the Year Award.