New Commission Member: Farah Lisa Sebti
Farah Lisa Sebti is a graduate of the UNC School of Law and is currently an attorney with Sebti Law, where she has practiced since December 2019. Previously, she was with Alston and Bird in Raleigh-Durham, NC, where she represented banks, mortgage lenders and mortgage servicers in claims arising under contracts, federal regulations, and state law. She also practiced with DLA Piper LLP in New York from 2010 – 2015 in the firm’s commercial litigation and securities practice groups. Licensed in both North Carolina and New York, Ms. Sebti was named to the 2015 New York Metro and 2017 North Carolina Super Lawyers Rising Stars lists. Before becoming an attorney, Ms. Sebti worked for several years in New York City at Cosmopolitan Magazine.
She has attended three of North Carolina’s venerable academic institutions: UNC Chapel Hill, Duke, and East Carolina University. She was born and raised in her mother’s hometown of Greenville, North Carolina; her father is from Casablanca, Morocco. She currently lives in Charlotte with her husband and twelve-year-old son.
Ms. Sebti was appointed to the Commission by Governor Roy Cooper.