Pone becomes first African American to lead Cumberland's District Court system
As the son of a sharecropper raised in the Gray’s Creek area, Ed Pone did not grow up in a house of privilege.“My mother was a stay-at-home mom,” he said in an interview earlier this week. “We grew up with hard work.”Pone said he had supportive and loving parents who helped mold him into the man he is today. And at a young age, he knew he wanted to become a lawyer.That goal was achieved early in his life, but he’s far […]
