Jim
Goodmon:
Distinguished Citizenship |
Russell
Robinson: Distinguished Public Service |
Goodmon, Robinson to receive NCCBI's
top awards
Raleigh broadcasting
executive Jim Goodmon and Charlotte attorney Russell
Robinson II will receive NCCBI’s highest honors during
the association’s historic 60th Annual Meeting at
the Raleigh Convention and Conference Center on March 20.
Goodmon will receive the Citation for Distinguished
Citizenship at the luncheon and Robinson will receive the
Citation for Distinguished Public Service at the dinner.
Goodmon, the president and CEO of Capitol Broadcasting Co., a
media conglomerate whose holdings include five TV stations and
the Durham Bulls baseball team, is one of the Triangle’s
hardest working community activists. He has volunteered untold
hours of his time to a host of worthy causes ranging from the
Boy Scouts to youth soccer to public health education. He and
his wife, Barbara, who have served on the boards of more than
60 nonprofit organizations, were honored in November as the
Triangle’s “Outstanding Volunteer Fund Raisers” by the
Association of Fundraising Professionals.
Robinson, a founding partner in the prestigious Robinson,
Bradshaw & Hinson law firm, is widely known for his
enthusiastic support for education and community affairs. He
was a trustee of UNC Charlotte from 1987 to 1997 and board
chairman the last eight of those years. A graduate of Duke
University and its law school, Robinson has served on Duke’s
Board of Visitors since 1983. He also served on the Johnson C.
Smith University board of visitors for several years.
“We are very pleased to honor two of North Carolina’s
finest citizens with these awards because I know, as so many
other people know, that our state is a much better place today
because of what they have contributed over the years,” NCCBI
President Phil Kirk said. “One thing they have in
common is their commitment to the hard, often unglamorous,
work of improving their communities.”
Goodmon’s concern for his community is perhaps most clearly
visible through his leadership of the A.J. Fletcher
Foundation, a charitable organization named for his
grandfather, the man who brought broadcasting to Raleigh. The
foundation is a significant contributor to charitable causes
and community development initiatives.
Similarly, Robinson has channeled much of his public service
through the Duke Endowment. He has served as a trustee of the
endowment since 1987 and is the current board chairman.
Robinson also has worked diligently for the United Way of the
Central Carolinas and has twice served as the campaign
chairman.
Goodmon has won many awards recognizing his civic and
charitable efforts. In just the past two years he has received
the Dialogo Pacesetter Award from the Latin American Resource
Center; the President’s Award from the Alice Aycock Poe
Center for Health Education; the Plott Hound Courage Award
from Common Cause North Carolina; and the North Carolina
Award, the highest honor given by the state for public
service.
Robinson has served as a director of the Presbyterian Hospital
Foundation since 1980. Active in several committees of the
N.C. State Bar Association, he has twice served terms as a
director of Legal Services of the Southern Piedmont.
NCCBI has bestowed the Citation for Distinguished Citizenship
annually since 1963 to honor an individual’s life of service
to the state and their community. Paul Z. Rizzo, former
dean of the Kenan Flagler Business School at UNC Chapel Hill,
was last year’s winner. The association has bestowed the
Citation for Distinguished Public Service annually since 1963
to honor an individual’s contributions to good government
and leadership of civic causes. U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms
was last year’s winner.
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