Commissioner Profiles

District 2 Lindy Brown 1207 Silverhill Court Garner, NC 27529 Wake County: 919-856-5576 Home: 919-779-2296 Fax: 919-856-5699 e-mail: lindy.brown@wakegov.com

Elected: 2006
Sworn in: December 2006
Term expires: December 2010

PROFESSIONAL

• Clinical Social Worker, Wake County Human Services, 2000–2005
• Campaign Scheduler, Friends for Lt. Governor Dennis Wicker, 1999–2000
• Senior Case Manager, Wake Drug Treatment Court Program, Carolina Correctional Services, Inc., 1997–1999.
• School Mentor, Wake County Human Services – School-Based Services, 1995–1996
• Forensic Social Worker, Dorothea Dix Hospital, 1987–1995

PUBLIC SERVICE AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

• Vice Chair, Wake County Board of Commissioners, 2009
• Wake County Board of Commissioners, 2006–present
• Wake County Human Services Board
• Graduate, N.C. Center for Women in Public Services
• Former chairperson, Wake County Commission for Women
• Garner Mayor’s School Assignment Task Force
• Garner Women’s Club
• Garner Chamber of Commerce
• Quota International, Inc. (Service Organization)
• Former member, Southeast Raleigh Improvement Commission
• Former member, Raleigh/Wake M.L. King Jr. Celebration Committee
• Raleigh/Wake NCCU and UNC-Chapel Hill Alumni Associations
• Eleanor Roosevelt member, Wake County Democratic Women’s Club
• Former chair, Precinct 16-09
• Campaign worker, Gov. Jim Hunt, 1980
• Campaign worker for numerous former and current elected officials, including Clarence Lightner, John Winters, Linda Gunter, Ralph Campbell, Dennis Wicker, Congressman Bob Etheridge, David Price and Brad Miller, N.C. House Representatives Dan Blue, Linda Coleman, Deborah Ross and Bernard Allen, N.C. Senators Vernon Malone and Janet Cowell, Wake County Commissioner Harold Webb, Mayors Charles Meeker and Sam Bridges, Raleigh Councilor James West, Wake School Board member Rosa Gill and many Superior and District Court judges

HONORS AND AWARDS

• 2007 Community Recognition Award, Raleigh/Wake National Pan Hellenic Council

EDUCATION

• University of North Carolina, Master's Degree in Social Work, 1997
• North Carolina Central University, Bachelor's Degree, 1987
• Enloe High School, graduated 1974

PERSONAL

• Lifelong resident of Wake County, having grown up in Raleigh
• First elected official in her family
• Married to Clifton Brown, a UPS driver
• Two adult children and three grandchildren
• Member, Mount Peace Baptist Church