Past Governors

1927-29    Charles L. Minor, Asheville
1929-42    Charles Hartwell Cocke, Asheville (Chair, 1935-42) 
1942-50    Paul F. Whitaker, Kinston
1950-59    Elbert L. Persons, Durham
1959-65    Robert L. McMillan, Winston-Salem
1965-68    Monroe T. Gilmour, Charlotte 
1968-74    Joseph B. Stevens, Greensboro 
1974-78    John T. Sessions, Jr., Chapel Hill 
1978-82    Norman H. Garret, Jr., Greensboro
1982-86    Joseph E. Johnson, III, Winston-Salem (Chair, 1986-87) 
1986-89    William W. Fore, Greenville (Moved to Maryland)
1989-93    Eugene M. Bozymski, Chapel Hill 
1993-97    T. Reginald Harris, Shelby
1997-01    James A. Bryan, II, Chapel Hill
1998-99    Janelle A. Rhyne, Wilmington (Transitional) 
2001-05    Janelle A. Rhyne, Wilmington
2005-09    Timothy W. Lane, Greensboro
2009-10    Rex M. McCallum, Durham (Resigned 2010) 
2010          Byron Jay Hoffman, Siler City (Interim)
2011-15    Byron Jay Hoffman, Siler City 
2015-19    Peter R. Lichstein, Winston-Salem
2019          Peter R. Lichstein, Winston-Salem (Interim)
2019-23    Lacy C. Hobgood, Winterville