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Names in the News
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NCCBI members among finalists for health foundation board
An independent search committee has chosen 22 finalists
from more than 750 nominees and sent its recommendations to
Attorney General Roy Cooper, who will choose from the list the
11 members of the first board of directors of the Health
Foundation for North Carolina. Several active members of NCCBI
are among the 22 finalists. Cooper will interview candidates and select directors
in coming weeks. The directors will oversee the foundation if
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina converts to a
for-profit entity. Under conversion laws established by the
General Assembly, the insurance company's fair market value
must be placed in a foundation to benefit health care. The law
directs that the attorney general establish the foundation by
selecting 11 board members and approving the foundation's
bylaws.
The names submitted by the nominating committee are: Donna
Chavis of Pembroke; Dr. Carolyn Ruth Black Ferree
of Winston-Salem, a faculty member at Wake Forest University
School of Medicine, a member of NCCBI; Stephen C.
Hassenfelt, executive vice president of U.S. Trust Corp.
in Greensboro, a member of NCCBI; Dr. John Hatch of
Durham; Phyllis N. Horns of Rocky Mount; Dr. William
Lawrence Joyner of Hampstead; Gloria Pace King of
Huntersville; Thomas W. Lambeth of Winston-Salem,
former director of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation; Dr. David
Liden of Murphy; Andrea Bazan Manson of Durham; David
Carroll McRae of University Health Systems of Eastern
Carolina in Greenville, a member of the NCCBI board; Anna
Spangler Nelson of Charlotte, president of real estate for
C.D. Spangler Construction Co., a member of NCCBI; Charles
D. Owen III of Asheville, president of Charles D. Owen
Manufacturing Co., a member of NCCBI; Dr. James B. Powell
of Asheville; Benjamin S. Ruffin of Lewisville,
chairman of the UNC System Board of Governors; Dr. Charles
A. Sanders of Durham, former chairman and CEO of
GlaxoSmithKline and a member of NCCBI; Dr. Pam Silberman
of Durham; Dr. Karen Linnea Smith of Raeford; Michael
C. Tarwater of Charlotte, vice president and COO of
Carolinas Healthcare System, a member of NCCBI; Travis H.
Tomlinson Jr. of Raleigh, president of Mayview
Convalescent Center and a member of NCCBI; Stephanie M.
Walker of Greensboro and Charles E. Zeigler of
Charlotte, a former chairman of NCCBI.
Appointments to the independent nominating committee were made
in accordance with state law governing the conversion process.
The committee consisted of representatives appointed by NCCBI,
the UNC Board of Governors, the N.C. Medical Society, the N.C.
Hospital Association and the N.C. Center for Nonprofits.
Frank Whitney of Charlotte, a lawyer with Kilpatrick, Stockton and a
former chairman of the Mecklenburg County Republican Party,
was named by President Bush as the next U.S. Attorney for the
Eastern District of North Carolina. Whitney previously served
more than 10 years as a federal prosecutor in the state's
Western District office.
Dr. Robert Knott, a former provost of Catawba College who until recently was
chancellor of Mars Hill College, was named president of the
Salisbury college. Knott taught philosophy at Catawba and was
provost from 1982 to 1989. He also was academic vice president
and dean of the college at Gardner-Webb College and was
president of Tusculum College in Greeneville, Tenn., from 1989
to 1999.
T. Jerry Williams, president of the North Carolina Restaurant Association (NCRA),
said he will retire June 1 after 33 years of service. Williams
plans to start his own lobbying and consulting service with
NCRA as an major client.
John Kennedy was appointed by Chief Justice I. Beverly Lake Jr. as
director of the Administrative Office of the Courts. Kennedy,
the senior deputy director and former Wake County clerk of
court, has been serving as acting director since December.
Charles Reavis, originally from Winston-Salem, was nominated by President
Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the new U.S. marshal
for the eastern district of North Carolina. Reavis, 57, comes
to the marshal service from the U.S. Drug Enforcement
Administration; over the past three years he was the resident
agent in charge of the DEA office in Raleigh.
Ripley E. Rand,
a Wake County assistant district attorney and son of state
Sen. Tony Rand (D-Cumberland), was appointed by Gov. Mike
Easley to the Superior Court bench. At 34, Rand is thought to
be among the youngest Superior Court judges ever.
Hal Lingerfelt, the N.C. commissioner of banks, is retiring after 34 years
with the agency that regulates state-chartered banks and other
financial services companies. Lingerfelt, 56, stepped down
April 1 for health reasons, one year short of completing his
second four-year term.
Erskine Bowles
was endorsed by former Gov. Jim Hunt in the Democratic U.S.
Senate race. Bowles faces eight other candidates in the
Democratic primary, including Secretary of State Elaine
Marshall and former state House Speaker Dan Blue.
Sen.
Brad Miller (D-Wake) resigned as chairman of the Senate
Redistricting Committee, saying he wanted to avoid a potential
conflict of interest while running for Congress in the new 13th
Congressional District he helped draw. Sen. Frank Ballance,
a co-chairman of the Senate Redistricting Committee who is
running in the the 1st District, said he does not plan to
resign the committee post.
David Reeves
of Hendersonville, a principal in The Capitol Corporation
investment banking firm, and Connie Haire, vice
president of student and institutional development
at Southwestern Community College in Sylva, were
appointed by Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue to the board of directors
of AdvantageWest, the regional economic development
organization serving 23 western counties.
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