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Wicker returns,
briefly, to the Senate
Former
Lt. Gov. Dennis Wicker (left), who's now lobbying for a
Raleigh law firm, returned on Tuesday to the chamber where he
had served for many years to be honored by his former
colleagues. Senate President Pro Tem Marc Basnight said Wicker
"was a fair man who treated all alike. Not only were you
fair, but you were honest in your appraisal of what would be
good for the state of North Carolina." Many praised
Wicker for his support for education, particularly community
colleges. Wicker, who served two terms as lieutenant governor
and lost to Mike Easley in last year's Democratic
gubernatorial primary, was presented with an engraved red vase
and silver pitcher as gifts.
 Haskell Rhett
III was appointed government relations manager for the
State Ports Authority. He previously worked as management
services director for the Cape Fear Council of Governments,
helping local governments in planning, economic development,
environmental and management matters and working with
legislators on issues of concern to local governments. Rhett,
who is married to Wilmington Chamber of Commerce Executive
Director Connie Majure, has also worked as a program analyst
for the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration Office
of Coastal Resource Management and as a district planner for
the state Division of Coastal Management in Wilmington.
Kathy Hykes
has joined the N.C. Partnership for
Children as director of programs and planning. She comes to
the agency, which oversees the Smart Start program, after
serving as founder and trustee of the Diversity Institute of
Bermuda at Bermuda College. Before that, Hykes was founder and
executive director of Child Care Resource and Referral in
Alamance County, and is a former Burlington City Council
member and former chair of the Burlington city school board.
William C. Farris
of Wilson was appointed by Gov. Easley on Monday to a District
Court judgeship for the 7th Judicial District, representing
Edgecombe, Nash, and Wilson counties. Farris is filling the
position previously held by Judge Alan Thomas, who was
appointed by Gov. Hunt to the state Court of Appeals in
January. Farris, who has been an attorney for the law
firm of Farris & Farris for 22 years, is a 1974 graduate
of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and earned
a law degree there in 1978.
Jordan Whichard III
(left), publisher of the Daily
Reflector of Greenville, has been elected chairman of the N.C.
Center for Public Policy Research for 2001. Phil Dixon
of Greenville, chairman of the East Carolina University board
of trustees, was elected vice chairman and chairman-elect for
2002. Betsy Justus of Raleigh, a regional vice
president for ACS Inc. was elected secretary, and Russ
Stephenson of Wilson, CEO of Stephenson Millwork Co., was
named treasurer. Five new members were named to the center's
board of directors: James Joseph of Chapel Hill, a Duke
University professor and former president of the National
Council on Foundations; state Court of Appeals Judge Linda
McGee of Hickory; state Rep. Ed McMahan of
Charlotte; Elisa Rodriguez of Charlotte, an assistant
vice president at Bank of America; and Pat Smith of
Asheville, director of the Community Foundation of Western
N.C. and president of the N.C. Association of Community
Foundations.
The Institute of Political Leadership named nine new board
members: Jack Betts, the Raleigh-based associate editor
of the Charlotte Observer; State Auditor Ralph Campbell;
Doug Copeland of Greensboro, president and publisher of
the Business Journal and a former Institute fellow; UNC-Wilmington
political science Chairman Milan Dluhy; Aura Maas
of Raleigh, founder and executive director of the N.C. Latin
American Resource Center; state Rep. Danny McComas;
state Agriculture Commissioner Meg Scott Phipps, a
former Institute fellow; and Charlotte-Mecklenburg school
board member Wilhelmenia Rembert, a former Institute
fellow.
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