Elected: 1988
Re-elected: 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008 
Sworn in: December 2004 (currently serving sixth consecutive term)
Term expires: December 2012

NATIONAL LEADERSHIP POSITIONS

• July 1998-July 1999 President, National Association of Counties
• July 1997-July 1998 First Vice President, National Association of Counties

PUBLIC SERVICE AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

• Wake County Commissioner since December 1988
• Commissioners' Chair for 1999-2000; Vice Chair, 1998-1999
• Chair, Commissioners' Human and Community Services Committee, 2001 and 2002
• Vice Chair, Commissioners' Budget, Finance and Education Committee, 2002
• Member, Commissioners' Budget, Finance and Education Committee, 2001
• Co-Chair, Local Government Partnership Council
• Co-Chair, Human Services Automation Planning Council of North Carolina
• National Council on Air Quality Standards
• Board of Directors, Wake Education Foundation
• Board of Directors, United Arts of Raleigh and Wake County
• Board of Trustees, Communities in Schools
• North Carolina PTA (Lifetime Member)
• Past President, North Carolina Association of County Commissioners
• Past Chair, Wake County Social Services Board
• Past member, Wake County Board of Health, the Raleigh Planning Commission and the Wake County Council on Fitness and Health

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

• Academy of Women
• Triangle Business Journal's Ten Most Powerful Women in the Triangle, 1998

EDUCATION

• Graduate, Asbury School of Nursing
• Further study, Early Childhood Development
• N.C. Institute of Government, Local Government Course

PERSONAL

• Husband, Bill; Children, Jeff and Missy