Governor McCrory Announces Appointments | Eastern North Carolina Now

 Raleigh, N.C.     The Office of Governor Pat McCrory announced the following appointments today:

• Dr. Leon G. Coleman (Durham County) — Dr. Coleman is a Research Associate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Hospitals. Dr. Coleman completed the MD/PhD program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. During that time he received and completed an F30 Ruth L Kirschstein NRSA award for MD/PhD students investigating the effects of alcohol on brain development. He's currently a member of the Society for Neuroscience and the Research Society on Alcoholism and has received numerous awards in his field. In the summer of 2006 Leon traveled to Sierra Leone, Africa to set up medical clinics in several cities.
• Stephanie Tyson (Mecklenburg County) — Tyson is Director of Business Development for Resourceful Solutions Inc., a small private company that offers mental health services.

 The council makes recommendations to the Governor and Secretary of Health and Human Services aimed at improving the health status of North Carolina's minority populations and to identify and review health promotic and disease prevention strategies relating to the causes of death and disability.

• Ed Carney (Wake County) — Carney was a Vice President and General Manager at Cisco Systems prior to his retirement in 2012. He has also been an Executive Vice President at Extreme Networks in Mooresville and employed by IBM. Carney has been active on several boards including the Food Bank of Eastern North Carolina and the General Hugh Shelton Leadership Center. This is a reappointment.
• Donald Haile (Wake County) — Haile is the retired Senior Vice President and Site General Manager for the North Carolina facilities of Fidelity Investments. Prior to joining Fidelity, Haile spent 34 years with IBM where he held various executive positions in hardware and software development, with responsibilities for telecommunications, systems management, and IBM operating systems.

 The purpose of the board is to provide policy and strategic direction that accelerate the innovative use of electronic and information technology in N.C. education and industry and enhance the state's competitiveness for economic growth and high-quality high-wage jobs.

• Cheryl Delaney (Mecklenburg County) — Lt. Col. Delaney is a retired USAF Nurse and Licensed Electrologist. She is the owner of University Electrolysis Spa. She served our country for over 20 years in the Air Force as a Flight Nurse, eventually retiring as Lieutenant Colonel. This is a reappointment.
• Beth Rountree (Henderson County) — Rountree is a licensed real estate broker. She provides relevant resources and top-notch service to a wide variety of buyers and sellers. Prior to becoming a real estate broker, Rountree was employed at Cotswold Elementary School as an Assistant Principal. This is a reappointment.

 The purpose of the board is to ensure minimum standards of competency, protect the public from misrepresentation of status by persons who hold themselves out to be certified electrologists, and to provide the public with safe care by the mandatory licensing electrologists.

• Mike Mitchell (Wake County) — Mitchell is a partner at Smith Anderson in Raleigh. He has more than twenty years of trial and appellate experience in state and federal courts. He formerly served as law clerk to the Honorable Frank W. Bullock, Jr., United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. This is a reappointment.
• Tom Murry (Wake County) — Murry is Chief Legal Counsel for Governmental Affairs at the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts. He earned a law degree from Campbell University and is a JAG officer in the N.C. National Guard. He has previously served two terms in the North Carolina House.

 The commission studies state laws to determine the need for statutory changes with a special focus on Uniform and Model Acts recommended by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and the American Law Institute. Members are authorized to recommend proposed changes to the General Assembly.

• Sandra Vander Linde (Durham County) — Linde is a licensed marriage and family therapist. She has over 16 years of postgraduate experience providing individual and family therapy to people from all walks of life, particularly people from African American and Latino cultural groups. Her theoretical approach is a combination of Family Systems Theory and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.

 The board ensures that the public has a means of protecting itself from unprofessional, improper, unauthorized, and unqualified use of certain titles by persons who practice marriage and family therapy.

• David Elliott (Wake County) — Elliott is a Special Deputy Attorney General with the N.C. Department of Justice. He has been with the office for over 17 years. This is a reappointment.
• Jennifer Haigwood (Wake County) — Haigwood is the Director of Administration and Governmental Affairs for the North Carolina Department of Labor. This is a reappointment.
• David Huffman (Catawba County) — Huffman is the Director of the North Carolina Governor's Crime Commission. Prior to beginning in that role, Huffman served as the Sheriff of Catawba County until his retirement in 2010. He has over 42 years of law enforcement experience. This is a reappointment.
• Sarah Tellis (Craven County) — Tellis is the founder and executive director of the Pearl Ministry, an international anti-trafficking organization. She has been active in national and international medical missions for the past 15 years. This is a reappointment.
• Elizabeth "Libby" Coles (Wake County) — Coles serves as Executive Director and Managing Attorney for JusticeMatters, which she founded in 2009. She specializes in the provision of trauma-informed humanitarian immigration services for survivors of human trafficking and other traumas. She is also a member of the N.C. Coalition Against Human Trafficking. She received her J.D. from Duke University School of Law. She was appointed to the board by the Speaker of the House and designated by the Governor to serve as Chair.

 The purpose of the board is to apply for and receive, on behalf of the State, funding from federal, public or private initiatives, grant programs or donors that will assist in examining and countering the problem of human trafficking in North Carolina; to commission, fund, and facilitate quantitative and qualitative research to explore the specific ways human trafficking is occurring in North Carolina and the links to international and domestic human trafficking, and to assist in creating measurement, assessment, and accountability mechanisms; to contribute to efforts to inform and educate law enforcement personnel, social services providers, and the general public about human trafficking so that human traffickers can be prosecuted and victim-survivors can receive appropriate services; to suggest new policies, procedures, or legislation to further the work of eradicating human trafficking and provide assistance and review with new policies, procedures, and legislation; to assist in developing regional response teams or other coordinated efforts to counter human trafficking the level of law enforcement, legal services, social services, and nonprofits; to identify gaps in law enforcement or service provision and recommend solutions to those gaps; to consider whether human trafficking should be added to the list of criminal convictions that require registration under the sex offender and public protection registration program.

• Tony Almeida (Rowan County) — Almeida was formerly the senior advisor on jobs and the economy for North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory. Almeida is past chair of the Charlotte Regional Partnership, the Rowan-Cabarrus Community College Foundation Board and the North Carolina Community College Foundation Board. This is a reappointment.
• J. Alan Butler (Guilford County) — Butler recently retired from Weaver Cooke Construction in Greensboro. He was Senior VP of Client Services for the company. Butler is also a member of the N.C. Green Power Board of Directors. This is a reappointment.
• Robert O. Wells (Wake County) — Wells is the owner of an agribusiness consulting firm in Raleigh. He previously served as Chairman of the N.C. Utilities Commission and as Director of the N.C. Cooperative Extension.
• Nancy H. Temple (Wake County) — Temple retired from Progress Energy as VP-Corporate Communications. Before joining Progress Energy, she held leadership positions in health care, government, and politics. She served in the administration of North Carolina Governor Jim Martin and was his chief of staff from 1989 to 1993.
• Henry C. Campen, Jr. (Wake County) — Campen is a Partner at Parker Poe Attorneys & Counselors at Law. He helps developers of wind, solar, biomass and fuel cell projects successfully navigate complex federal, state and local regulations for electric generating plants. Campen has permitted over 1000 megawatts of renewable energy fueled electrical generation. This is a reappointment.

 The duties of the Advanced Energy Corporation are to develop projects to promote energy efficiency and investigate alternative means of using and producing power. The corporation has 13 members, each serving three-year term. The governor appoints eight members.

• Daniel DeVane (Wake County) — DeVane retired from the N.C. Department of Transportation where he served as the Chief Deputy Secretary/Chief Operating Officer. Prior to that he served six years as a County Commissioner in Hoke County and 11 years as a member of the N.C. House of Representatives serving parts of Hoke, Scotland, Moore, Robeson and Cumberland Counties. He has been a licensed auctioneer since 1976 operating DeVane Realty & Auction. After retiring from DOT, he and his family have resumed the auction business operating in the Fayetteville and surrounding areas. This is a reappointment.

 The commission protects the public from incompetent or unqualified persons engaging in auctioneering activities.They are charged with deceitful practices, willful misrepresentation and dishonest dealings by auctioneers in the state. The commission has five members, each serving a three-year term. The governor appoints all members.

• Dr. Valerie A. Johnson (Granville County) — Dr. Valerie Ann Johnson is Mott Distinguished Professor of Women's Studies, Director of Africana Women's Studies and former Associate Director of the Honors Program at Bennett College in Greensboro, North Carolina. As a scholar and educator, Dr. Johnson engages in activities that promote the stewardship of the natural, historic, and cultural resources in North Carolina as part of the larger global community; fosters scholarship in the area of women and girls health; and actively participates in the support and growth of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Dr. Johnson received her Ph.D. in Medical Anthropology from the University of California, Berkeley, M.A. in Sociology from Atlanta University, and B.A. in Sociology from Spelman College.

 The purpose of the commission is to advise and assist the Secretary of Natural and Cultural Resources in the preservation, interpretation, and promotion of African-American history, arts, and culture.

• Contact:
•  Crystal Feldman
•  govpress@nc.gov