
Danya Ledford Vanhook
Attorney
Biography
Experience
Danya Ledford Vanhook has been in practice since 2003. Danya has 20+ years of legal experience. Danya has been in private practice since 2007-2009 and 2011-present.
Danya has served the Judicial District Bar Vice President/President-Elect from 2016-2018; President from 2018-2020; and served from 2020-2022 as the Immediate Past President.
Danya served as a District Court Judge (2009-2011) in the 30th Judicial District in North Carolina. Danya has also served as a Department of Social Services attorney for Buncombe and Graham Counties and as a Clifton Everett Fellow with Legal Aid of North Carolina. Danya is an effective advocate for her clients.
Background
Danya is a native of Macon County, North Carolina, and a graduate of Franklin High School. Danya graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with Distinction in 2000 and from New York University School of Law in 2003, where she was a member of the Moot Court Board.
Haywood County Lawyers for Literacy (2019-2020)
Lawyers for Literacy is a public service program that matches legal professionals with local school children to improve students’ reading skills and spark their interest in books, civics and history.
Lawyers for Literacy volunteers spend at least 30 minutes a week reading to a small groups of students over a month’s time. A volunteer records the books that the student will read during the month, either with the volunteer or alone, in a passport booklet supplied by the NC Bar Foundation and gifted to the student at the end of the program.