For twenty years, Henderson has been a presenter and program chair for CLE programs related to trial advocacy and death penalty litigation throughout the country. In 2007, he provided the keynote speeches for the California Association for Criminal Justice and California Public Defender Association annual seminar in Monterey, California, and the for the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.’s annual death penalty conference at The Airlie House in Virginia.
Henderson was previously a regular faculty member of the trial advocacy program at Harvard Law School (1986-90) and an adjunct assistant professor at UNC-Chapel Hill (1991-97). He has served as a faculty member in trial advocacy programs across the country, including the National Criminal Defense College in Macon, Georgia, and programs sponsored by the National Institute of Trial Advocacy (in both North Carolina and South Africa), the New York State Defenders Association, and The Bryan R. Schechmeister Death Penalty College in Santa Clara University. In 1998, Henderson served as a Lecturer at Duke Law School, where he taught a seminar on the death penalty.
Henderson currently sits on the Commission on Indigent Defense Services, where his term expires in 2013. Henderson is a member of the Mecklenburg County Bar Association; the North Carolina Advocates for Justice, where he previously served on the Board of Governors as Vice President for Legal Affairs; the Grievance Committee, 26th Judicial District (2003-06); and the Tort Reform Task Force of the North Carolina Bar Association (2005-06).
