Carma Henson
VerifiedAbout Carma Henson
Carma Locklear Henson is a partner at Henson Fuerst, Attorneys at Law in North Carolina, where she has practiced since 1999. Her practice focuses on nursing home abuse and neglect cases, advocating for vulnerable elderly populations against large corporations. She practices alongside her husband David Henson, her brother-in-law Thomas Henson Jr., and Rachel Fuerst.
Carma is the first Lumbee to lead the North Carolina Advocates for Justice, where she serves as President. She grew up in Pembroke and Wake County and attended St. Mary's School.
She earned her B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her Juris Doctor from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 1999, passing the bar exam and being admitted that same year.
She currently serves as Chair of the Nursing Home Litigation Group for the American Association for Justice (AAJ) and as President of the North Carolina Advocates for Justice.
She has been selected to Super Lawyers from 2020 to 2025.
Notable case results
A North Carolina nursing home placed an 89-year-old man in a room with a resident it knew to be violent, and within three days the roommate beat him to death.
A North Carolina woman died after a series of falls during a roughly two-month nursing home stay, and her family settled wrongful-death claims against the facility's corporate operators for $4.25 million.
A 73-year-old man admitted to a North Carolina nursing home for ankle-fracture rehabilitation developed untreated Stage 4 pressure ulcers within 27 days and died, and Henson Fuerst resolved the wrongful-death claim for $4 million.
A 69-year-old North Carolina nursing home resident who needed two staff members for all care suffered a broken femur when an understaffed facility sent one aide to move her alone, and her claim settled for $3.5 million in June 2025.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
