Today, Governor Roy Cooper announced appointments to North Carolina boards and commissions.

Gov. Cooper has appointed the following individuals to the Governor’s Advisory Council on Aging:

• Dr. James Paul Mitchell of Greenville as a member at-large. Dr. Mitchell has worked in the Department of Sociology at East Carolina University since 1980 and has been a Professor since 1994. He was previously Director of the Center for Diversity and Inequality Research in the same department.
• Elizabeth Ann Russell James of Sanford as a member at-large. James retired after teaching in the Lee County School System for 26 years. She now works in her community visiting the elderly that are in need and volunteering for Jobs for Life.
• Sheila Whittenton of Smithfield as a member at-large. Whittenton is an Operations Coordinator for the North Carolina Democratic Party. Prior to this she worked at Edwards Brothers, Inc. in Lillington for nearly 30 years.
• Mary Lee Kurek of Atlantic Beach as a member at-large. Kurek is the President and CEO of Frontrunners Development, Inc., a business development agency that matches solution advisors with country leaders and decisionmakers.
• Kenneth Lee Burgess of Whitakers as a member at-large. Burgess is a healthcare attorney at Baker Donelson in Raleigh. Burgess was previously the Senior Director of Legal Services and Facility Operations of the American Health Care Association, and General Counsel of both the NC Health Care Facilities Association and the...

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