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judge appointed to state Supreme Court
 Superior
Court Judge G.K. Butterfield (left) of Wilson, 53, was
appointed by Gov. Mike Easley to the vacancy on the state
Supreme Court created by the election of I. Beverly Lake Jr.
as chief justice. Lake defeated former chief justice Henry
Frye in the November elections. Butterfield is
African-American; Frye was the high court’s only minority
member.
"Judge Butterfield
has been a dedicated public servant and distinguished trial
judge for more than a decade," Easley said in a
statement. "He has presided over numerous complex ...
Cases, exercising great wisdom and impartiality in the
process." Butterfield is the co-owner of Fairplay Child
Center Inc., which is a licensed child care center with three
campuses in Wilson and Rocky Mount. Butterfield was president
of the North Carolina Association of Black Lawyers from 1981
to 1984.
Butterfield is a 1971
graduate of North Carolina Central University and earned his
law degree from the university in 1974. Butterfield served in
the Army form 1968 to 1970. Butterfield has been a Superior
Court judge since 1989, after winning election to a seat in a
minority district created by the General Assembly. Before that
he practiced law in Wilson and at various times was a law
partner of state Rep. Toby Fitch (D-Wilson); state Court of
Appeals Judge James Wynn, and Superior Court Judge Quentin
Sumner of Rocky Mount.
 
William Muse (right), president of Auburn
University since 1992, was unanimously approved by the UNC
Board of Governors as the next chancellor at East Carolina
University. He will begin Aug. 1 at a salary of $230,000,
succeeding the retiring Richard Eakin.
Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue
was appointed by Gov. Easley to the Information Resource
Management Commission. The commission oversees information
technology planning and policy development for state
government, including responsibility for development of
technical architecture.
Jeff Gray of Raleigh (left), an attorney with the
Holt York McDarris law firm, was appointed by House Speaker
Jim Black to a two-year term on the Rules Review Commission.
Gray, a former assistant state attorney general, practices in
administrative law, civil litigation and governmental and
legislative affairs.
Retired state
treasurer Harlan Boyles, who recently announced that he
would be a part-time consultant with a Raleigh CPA firm, said
he has joined Franklin Street Partners in Chapel Hill as a
director of Franklin Street Trust Co., a private,
non-depository trust bank that is chartered and regulated by
the state. Paul Rizzo, chairman of the company, said Boyles'
experience would help clients. Boyles has also become a
part-time venture partner of Eno River Capital of Durham, a
firm that invests primarily in early-stage technology
companies.
Bob Bellamy,
director of the Okefenokee Regional Education Services agency
in Georgia and a former associate state superintendent in the
Peach State, was named associate superintendent for
information technology services in the N.C. Department of
Public Instruction. Bellamy worked for DPI from 1985-96 in the
information and technology areas.
Peter Hans, a
former aide to Cong. Richard Burr (R-5th) who serves on the
State Board of Community Solleges, has joined the newly-formed
governmental relations unit at the Smith Helms Mulliss &
Moore law firm in Raleigh that is headed by former lieutenant
governor Dennis Wicker. Besides Wicker and Hans, the team
includes Mack Paul, Wicker's former chief of staff who ran the
Gore-Lieberman campaign in North Carolina, and Ginger Nelles,
who was executive assistant to former state labor commissioner
Harry Payne.
Tim Minton of
Charlotte was named legislative lobbyist and director of
political affairs for the N.C. Home Builders Association. He
was CEO of the Charlotte Regional Realtors Association and the
Carolinas Multiple Listing Service. Minton previously worked
for the home builders association and also was once the
governmental affairs director for the N.C. Association of
Realtors.
Lynne Garrison was
named vice president of corporate communications for Blue
Cross and Blue Shield of N.C. She will oversee all of the
company's communications operations, including public and
media relations, community relations, consumer affairs,
employee communications and customer publications. Garrison
joined Blue Cross in 1997 as manager of public policy
communications and was later named director of public
relations and director of corporate communications. She
previously worked as director of public affairs for the state
Department of Health & Human Services.
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