Paul A. Meggett joined the UMBC team as Vice President and General Counsel in September 2024. Before that, he served as general counsel at Appalachian State University in Boone, where he successfully launched and ran a Division of Institutional Integrity, comprising enterprise-wide legal, risk, and compliance functions, helping to drive institutional excellence and a comprehensive approach in those areas. Paul has deep and broad experience in all aspects of higher education law and in leading such work at public institutions.
He spent more than a decade as in-house counsel at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a top-tier public research university. Paul also served as in-house counsel at UNC Health, an integrated healthcare system of 11 hospitals and more than 33,000 employees. He has also been a law professor and an interim law dean.
Paul earned his bachelor’s degree from North Carolina State University and his law degree from UNC School of Law. After graduating from law school, he clerked for Chief Justice Burley B. Mitchell Jr. of the North Carolina Supreme Court. In 2023, Paul was awarded the John B. McMillan Distinguished Service Award from the North Carolina State Bar.