North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper announced several appointments to state advisory boards and committees earlier this week. Some of those appointees are Chapel Hill community members.

For the Governor’s Advisory Council on Aging, Cooper selected two Chapel Hill residents with UNC ties to help inform the group’s work on improving human services to the elderly. John Hammond and Dr. Ilene Siegler were both chosen as members at-large. Hammond, a retired professor from UNC Hospitals’ Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, regularly volunteers with many organizations related to the topic of aging. Siegler, a professor of epidemiology at UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health, also teaches about psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Duke. She is an accomplished author, with hundreds of journal articles, books and chapters published throughout her career.

A standout UNC student earned a selection from Cooper to North Carolina’s Juvenile Justice Planning Committee. Sophomore Greear Webb will now be a member at-large, providing a perspective as the co-founder of both NC Town Hall and Young Americans Protest, two youth-led nonprofits. Greear, who is a Morehead-Cain Scholar, also serves as a Youth Voter Engagement Ambassador through Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education.

Two more Chapel Hill community members were chosen to serve on Cooper’s Executive Mansion Fine Arts Committee. The governor tabbed Rhonda Beatty, the director of the UNC Visitors Center, as an at-large member. Beatty is also a member of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences Advisory Commission, the UNC Friends of the Library, and the Sir Walter Cabinet. Cooper also announced Thomas S. Kenan III would become a member. The director of Flagler System, Inc., Kenan is also a part of many boards at UNC, including the university’s Institute of the Arts and Humanities Advisory Board, Ackland Art Museum Visiting Committee, and the Arts and Sciences Foundation.

Full appointments to state advisory boards and committees can be found on Governor Cooper’s state website.

Photo via the North Carolina Department of Public Safety.

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