North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper recently appointed several Orange County residents to serve on various state boards and commissions, including new members of the Historic Hillsborough Commission.

The governor shared his appointments on November 3, naming eight individuals to serve on the group that celebrates and promotes the history of the town and Orange County.

Commission members are meant to be representative of the greater community and are appointed by the governor to serve six-year terms. Among the nonprofit’s responsibilities are maintaining and preserving the Burwell School Historic Site on North Churton Street.

Among Cooper’s appointees are two public figures in Orange County: Matt Hughes, a Hillsborough commissioner, and Beverly Scarlett, a retired district court judge in District 15-B. Other additions to the Historic Hillsborough Commission include Nancy Espersen, Kenneth Ostrand, Kathie Lynch Brown, Katherine Askew Kirschner, Kenneth Billings and Krystal Harris.

All meetings of the Historic Hillsborough Commission are open to the public and are held at the Burwell School.

In addition to those appointments, the North Carolina governor also added two other Orange County community members to commissions. Robin Smith of Chapel Hill was chosen as a new member and chair of the North Carolina Environmental Management Commission. Nathaniel Davis Jr., a senior pastor of the Now Church in the greater Chapel Hill area, also was appointed to the North Carolina Social Work Certification and Licensure Board.

 

Photo via the Burwell School on Facebook.

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