List of commissioners of Orange County, North Carolina
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This page contains an incomplete list of persons who have served on the Board of Commissioners
of Orange County, North Carolina
. The Board of Commissioners is composed of seven members serving staggered terms of four years. Commissioners are elected by district and at-large in partisan elections. (Board membership increased from three members to five members in 1954 and from five members to seven members in 2008.)
County commission
A county commission is a group of elected officials charged with administering the county government in local government in some states of the United States. County commissions are usually made up of three or more individuals...
of Orange County, North Carolina
Orange County, North Carolina
Orange County is a county located in the U.S. state of North Carolina. As of the 2010 census, the population was 133,801. Its county seat is Hillsborough...
. The Board of Commissioners is composed of seven members serving staggered terms of four years. Commissioners are elected by district and at-large in partisan elections. (Board membership increased from three members to five members in 1954 and from five members to seven members in 2008.)
Current commissioners
- Alice M. Gordon (1990- )
- Barry Jacobs (1998- )
- Valerie P. Foushee (2004- )
- Pam Hemminger (2008- )
- Bernadette Pelissier (2008- )
- Steve Yuhasz (2008- )
- Earl McKee (2010- )
Former commissioners
- John H. Hanner (1932–1938)
- W. P. Berry (1932–1936)
- J C. Lloyd (1932–1936)
- Carl T. Durham (1936–1938)
- S. A. Nathan (1936–1938)
- Collier Cobb (1938–1952)
- J. Ed Laws (1938–1942)
- Ben Wilson (1938–1950)
- Sim Efland (1950–1956)
- Hubert G. Laws (1942–1951)
- R. O. Forrest (1951–1954)
- R. J. M. Hobbs (1952–1960)
- Henry S. Walker (1954–1974)
- Dwight M. Ray (1954–1958)
- Edwin S. Lanier (1954–1956)
- Donald Stanford (1956–1964)
- Claude T. Pope (1956–1957)
- Donald McDade (1957–1962)
- Clarence Jones (1958–1962)
- Harvey D. Bennett (1960–1972)
- Gordon Cleveland (1962–1966)
- Carl M. Smith (1962–1970)
- William C. Ray (1964–1972)
- Ira A. Ward (1966–1973)
- C. Norman Walker (1970–1986)
- Flora R. Garrett (1972–1976)
- Richard E. Whitted (1972–1984)
- Melvin Whitfield (1973–1974)
- Norman F. Gustaveson (1974–1982)
- Jan Pinney (1974–1978)
- Donald (Don) Willhoit (1976–1996)
- Anne C. Barnes (1978–1981)
- Shirley E. Marshall (1981–1990)
- Andrew B. (Ben) Lloyd, Jr. (1982–1986)
- John W. Hartwell (1986–1990)
- Verla C. InskoVerla C. InskoVerla Clemens Insko is a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's fifty-sixth House district, including constituents in Orange county. A retired health program administrator from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Insko is currently serving in her seventh term...
(1990–1994) - William (Bill) L. Crowther (1994–1998)
- Margaret W. Brown (1996–2004)
- Stephen Halkiotis (1986–2006)
- Moses Carey, Jr. (1984–2008)
- Mike Nelson (2006-2010)