Kimberly Coward

Kim Coward is a Board Certified Specialist in Real Property Law and Residential Transactions. She has practiced with Coward, Hicks & Siler, PA  since 1988,  focusing almost exclusively on Real Property matters including contracts, easements, property owner associations, entity formation, foreclosures, and real estate development.

Kim is an active member of both the North Carolina State Bar and the North Carolina Bar Association. For well more than a decade, Kim has served legal governance and specialization in North Carolina through her dedication to the North Carolina State Bar Board of Legal Specialization. She served as Chair of the Board and as a member and Chair of the Real Property Legal Specialization Subcommittee.  Kim is a member of the Real Property Section of the North Carolina Bar Association. In further service to the Bar, Kim has served as an advisory member to the Ethics Committee from 2014 to 2020.

Being part of the small communities of Cashiers and Highlands has provided Kim the opportunity to immerse herself and engage in community services in a more involved way. Kim participates in a multitude of civic activities, including having served on the Cashiers Highlands Humane Society Board, the Western Carolina University Honor College, the Cashiers Community Foundation, the Cashiers Area Chamber of Commerce and the Highlands-Cashiers Hospital Board of Directors. Perhaps one of the most fulfilling services for Kim was being one of the founders, and then the Board Chair, of the Summit Charter School, which was one of North Carolina’s first charter schools.

Kim has been recognized as “Business Person of the Year” by the Cashiers Area Chamber of Commerce in 2001. She was also included in North Carolina Bar Journal’s “Profiles of Specialization” magazine series in June 2015. Kim has been listed in Best Lawyers in America Real Estate Section for the last two years.

Kim was born in the midwest and graduated summa cum laude from Iowa State University in 1985 with a Bachelor of Science in Political Science. She received her Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1988, where she was a member of the law review.

Kim met her husband, Judge Bill Coward (now retired) at law school where he was ahead of her (and still is).  Together that have two children:  Austin, married to Lacey, who lives in Cheyenne, WY with their newest pride and joy, Theodore Hooper Coward (Hooper); and Claire, married to Eric Wilkins and parents of Davey, Ames and #3, who is expected at the end of July.

Kim is a “compulsive hobbyist” and loves to do many things will gusto.  Her current passions are shooting, golfing, spending time with her newly retired husband and ruining her grandchildren.   Fortunately, her two German Shepherd Dogs are able to herd the two family cats and do quite well as the office “Pupalegals”, shepherding clients to and from the conference room.