Career
He headed the party list in South Antrim for the 1996 Northern Ireland Forum election, and was easily elected. He worked with David Brewster and Dean Godson on the UUP"s "Strand I" team at the talks which led to the Good Friday Agreement. He also became chairman of the Young Unionists.
King was suggested as a possible UUP candidate in the South Antrim by-election, 2000, but the party instead stood David Burnside.
In 2001, he was part of a group of anti-agreement UUP members who met with John de Chastelain of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning. During the previous mandate of the Northern Ireland Assembly, King was a Special Advisor to the First Minister of Northern Ireland.
King returned to full-time practice as a criminal defence barrister in May 2011, and is currently a deputy district judge.
