Wilson Hayman has practiced law in Raleigh for over twenty years principally in the areas of health care law, administrative law and church law. He is a partner with Poyner & Spruill L.L.P., a full service business law firm with offices in Raleigh, Rocky Mount and Charlotte, and presently serves as the chair of the firm’s Health Care Section. Wilson primarily represents hospitals, physicians and managed care organizations in business, regulatory, insurance and transactional work. He is a frequent continuing legal education speaker on health law and managed care, mental health law and related topics. He has been active in the North Carolina and Wake County Bar Associations.

Wilson presently serves as Chancellor or general counsel of the North Carolina Conference of The United Methodist Church. An active lay person in his church, Hayes Barton United Methodist, he has chaired for the past eight years that conference’s Board of Institutions.
 

Prior to joining Poyner & Spruill in 1990, Wilson was employed by the North Carolina Department of Justice as an Assistant Attorney General, where he had principal responsibility for advising the Division of Mental Health in the N.C. Department of Human Resources. In this position, Wilson represented the agency and its employees in major class action litigation in state and federal court.
 

Wilson was born in Durham and grew up in Chapel Hill. He graduated from Princeton University in 1976, magna cum laude in history. He received his juris doctor degree at the University of North Carolina School of Law, where he was Note and Comment Editor of that school’s international law journal.
 

Wilson has long been active in international exchange programs, first as an American Field Service high school exchange student to Austria, as an intern during college in Cologne, West Germany, and as a student at the University of Exeter, England during law school. A member of the Rotary Club of Raleigh since 1985, Wilson has helped lead the club in a variety of areas, including International Youth Exchange and other youth projects. Wilson and his wife, Jennie, have one son, Will, who is a third grader at Ravenscroft School.
 

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