C. Gray Johnsey

Gray is licensed to practice before all North Carolina State Courts, Federal District Court, United States Tax Court and the United States Court of Claims. He is a member of the American Bar Association, North Carolina State Bar and the North Carolina Bar Association.

Gray is a Board Certified Specialist in estate planning and probate law. He has served on the faculty of the National Graduate Trust School. For thirty years, he served on the faculty of the Southeastern Trust School at Campbell University, where he taught estate, gift and generation skipping tax.

A frequent lecturer on tax and estate planning topics, Gray has addressed the Duke University Estate Planning Conference, the Estate Planning and Fiduciary Law Section of the North Carolina State Bar, the Tax Section of the North Carolina State Bar, the North Carolina CPA Annual Accounting and Taxation Symposium, and the Trust Advisors Forum.

• At the 39th Annual Session of the Southeastern Trust School, Gray taught estate tax, gift tax, generation skipping tax and special valuation rules.
• At the 68th Annual Symposium of the North Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants, Gray gave a presentation and presented a manuscript on “Implementing the Estate Plan.”
• At the 3rd Annual Conference of Members Trust Company, Gray gave a federal transfer tax update.
• At the 24th Annual Duke University Estate Planning Conference, Gray gave a presentation and presented a manuscript on apportionment of the federal estate tax.
• At the most recent Trust Advisors Forum, held in Pinehurst, N.C., Gray addressed “Hot Topics in Estate and Tax Planning.”