Raleigh
- The N.C. Board of Transportation added five new members
as they were sworn in for four-year terms by N.C. State Supreme Court Justice
Paul Newby Tuesday afternoon at a ceremony in Raleigh. Three other members of the
Board were sworn in to extend their service with another term.
The
new members are:
Sandra Fountain - Division 3 - Sampson, Duplin, Onslow, Pender, New Hanover and Brunswick
counties;
Terry Hutchens - Division 6 - Cumberland, Harnett, Bladen, Robeson and Columbus
counties;
Patrick Molamphy -Division 8 - Moore, Lee, Chatham, Randolph, Hoke, Montgomery, Richmond
and Scotland counties;
Tracy
Dodson - Division 10 - Mecklenburg,
Union, Anson, Cabarrus and Stanly counties; and
Walter Debnam Jr. -Division 14 - Cherokee, Clay, Macon, Graham, Transylvania, Henderson,
Polk, Jackson, Haywood and Swain counties.
The returning members are:
Major General Hugh Overholt -Division 2 -Member since
2009 - Carteret, Jones, Lenoir, Greene, Pitt, Beaufort, Craven
and Pamlico counties;
"Gus" Tulloss -Division 4 -Member since
2008 - Johnston, Nash, Wayne, Wilson, Edgecombe and Halifax
counties; and
Andrew Perkins - At Large -Member since 2003.
Nineteen
men and women from across the state make up the N.C. Board of Transportation
and work with NCDOT staff members to make decisions about transportation
priorities.
Pictured
in photo (from left to right): Andrew
Perkins, Patrick Molamphy, Tracy
Dodson, Walter Debnam Jr., Hugh Overholt, Sandra Fountain, Terry Hutchen, Gus Tulloss, Justice Paul Newby.