Background
Townsend, Mark Russell was born on July 28, 1960 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Otho T. and Anne Louise (Blake) Townsend.
Townsend, Mark Russell was born on July 28, 1960 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Otho T. and Anne Louise (Blake) Townsend.
Wake Forest University (Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, 1982. Juris Doctor, 1985).
Contract attorney, Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 1986; attorney, Fieldcrest Cannon, Inc., Eden, North Carolina, since 1986; assistant general counsel, since 1989.
Member American Bar Association, North Carolina Bar Association (workers' compensation subcommittee since 1987), Rockingham County Bar Association, Eden Junior Chamber of Commerce (board directors 1987, treasurer 1988).
Married Carol Bowen McCoy, July 21,1979. Children: Mark Russell Junior, Diana Elizabeth.