The governing body of the NCSBA is its 28-member Board of Directors. The Board is composed of the Association President, President-Elect, Vice President, Treasurer, Immediate Past President, members elected by the Association at the annual Delegate Assembly, and any member of a North Carolina county or city board of education who is also an officer or director, or former officer or director of the National School Boards Association or the Southern Regional School Boards Association. The Board of Directors plans and is responsible for the annual delegate assembly and other meetings of the Association. The Board has general charge and control of the affairs of the Association and may act in all matters for the Association between sessions of the Delegate Assembly. Officers and Directors are elected each November during the Delegate Assembly at the NCSBA Annual Conference.
Officers

Carlos Riddick
President
Washington County

Jeff Tatham
President-Elect
Cherokee County

Rick Singletary
Vice President
Scotland County

Kimberly McMichael
Treasurer
Rockingham County

Margaret Bradsher
Immediate Past President
Person County
Directors

Paul Baker
McDowell County

Leisa Batts
Greene County

T. Dianne Bellamy Small
Guilford County

Jennifer Dacey
Craven County

Sandy Ellington-Graves
Alamance-Burlington

Jerry Ethridge
Richmond County

Steve Gainey
Brunswick County

Glenda Gibson
Stanly County

Marie Helms
Davie County

Deanna Jones
Cumberland County

Renee Purvis
Martin County

Lenora Shipp
Charlotte-Mecklenburg

Christina Sutton
Lincoln County

James Tripp
Pitt County

David Twiddy
Dare County

Carol Worley
2025-26 Raleigh Dingman Winner
Clinton City
Past Presidents’ Council

Jennifer Thompson
2023-2024 President
Cherokee Central

Darrell Pennell
2022-2023 President
Caldwell County

Billy Griffin
2018-2019 President
Jones County

Amy Churchill
2020-2021 President
Buncombe County

Paige Sayles
2014-2015 President
Franklin County

Chuck Francis
2011-2012 President
Haywood County

Wendell Hall
2009-2010 President
Hertford County

Dr. Christine Fitch
1996-1997 President
Wilson County
