Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» Board of Trustees Announces Reappointments
Josie Brown Davis (left) and Gloria Wiggins-Hicks (center) were recently reappointed to the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» Board of Trustees. Tracy Whitehurst (right), Edgecombe County assistant clerk of court and human resources, delivered the oath of office during a recent board meeting. Ricky Thompson was also reappointed to the board and was sworn in at a previous time.
Three members of the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» Board of Trustees have been reappointed to serve four-year terms.
Rocky Mount resident Josie Brown Davis was reappointed to the board by Governor Roy Cooper. Davis is a retired educator who spent 38 years as a teacher and administrator in Nash-Rocky Mount Schools and Edgecombe County Public Schools.
A member of the board’s Personnel Committee and board liaison to the Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» Foundation Board of Directors, Davis was first appointed to the board in 2018.
The Edgecombe County Board of Education reappointed Ricky Thompson of Tarboro to the board. Thompson is a financial advisor with Edward Jones.
He chairs the board’s Personnel Committee and is a member of the Executive Committee. Thompson has served as an Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» trustee since 2018.
Gloria Wiggins-Hicks, a trustee since 1997, was reappointed to the board by the Edgecombe County Board of Commissioners. She serves on the board’s Building and Grounds Committee.
A Rocky Mount resident, Wiggins-Hicks is a retired community relations manager of Cummins Rocky Mount Engine Plant.
The Â鶹´«Ã½Ó³» Board of Trustees has 12 members, each serving a four-year term. The Office of the Governor, the Edgecombe County Board of Education, and the Edgecombe County Board of Commissioners each appoint four members.