The Hon. Samantha H. Cabe is a judge for the 15B Judicial District Court of North Carolina. She was elected to the bench on November 8, 2016.
The 15B Judicial District encompasses Orange County and Chatham County.
Prior to her election, Cabe was a partner at Holcomb & Cabe, a law firm she joined in 2013. During her tenure there, she represented clients in family, criminal, juvenile delinquency, domestic violence, traffic, and civil matters.
Cabe earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Western Carolina University in 1997. She spent the next few years working as a client accountant at Crisp Hughes Evans in Asheville before completing a J.D. at the University of North Carolina School of Law in 2002.
She is licensed to practice in North Carolina (2002), the United States Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit (2003), and the United States District Court for the Eastern and Middle Districts of North Carolina (2002).
After graduating from law school, Cabe entered into private practice, working as an associate at Northern Blue in Chapel Hill. She spent the next eleven years with the firm, where she maintained a general litigation law practice.