TIP-OFF Oct. 31, 2002 NEW UNC BOARD OF GOVERNORS CHAIRMAN TO VISIT NCSA ON NOV. 4
WINSTON-SALEM – The new chairman of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors will visit the campus of the North Carolina School of the Arts on Monday, Nov. 4. J. Bradley Wilson will be on the NCSA campus during the afternoon, meeting with Chancellor Wade Hobgood and members of the School’s senior administrative team. He will also be meeting with the faculty and staff councils of the School. Wilson, a corporate attorney from Cary, was elected to a two-year term as chairman of the UNC Board of Governors in July. Senior vice president, corporate secretary, and general counsel to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, Wilson was first appointed to the Board of Governors by the N.C. General Assembly in 1997. Currently a member of the board's Committee on Personnel and Tenure, he has previously served as vice chair and chair of the board's Committee on Budget and Finance and has twice chaired the Committee on Presidential Assessment. A 1975 graduate of Appalachian State University, Wilson earned his law degree from the Wake Forest University School of Law before entering private law practice in Lenoir. In 1992, he was named general counsel to Gov. James B. Hunt Jr., a post he held until being named acting secretary of the N.C. Department of Crime Control and Public Safety in 1995. Later that same year, Wilson assumed his current position at BCBSNC, where he oversees all legal matters, governmental and regulatory issues, and corporate policy and management. Chairman of the N.C. Railroad Company board and immediate past chairman of the Meredith College board, Wilson previously has served on the N.C. Board of Transportation and on the boards of the N.C. Child Advocacy Institute, the Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina, and the N.C. Council of School Attorneys. Active in professional and civic organizations, he is a past president of the ASU Yosef Club and a former member of the ASU Foundation board and the ASU Alumni Council. A past fellow of the N.C. Institute of Political Leadership, he was named to Business Leader magazine's "Impact 100" list in 1997. The North Carolina School of the Arts is located at 1533 S. Main St., Winston-Salem. MEDIA: You are invited to meet Chairman Wilson from 1 to 1:45 p.m., when he will be having lunch with students in the School’s cafeteria. For more information, contact Nancy Dawson-Sauser, director of public relations at NCSA, at 336-770-3335. ###
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TIP-OFF Oct. 31, 2002

NEW UNC BOARD OF GOVERNORS CHAIRMAN TO VISIT NCSA ON NOV. 4

WINSTON-SALEM – The new chairman of the University of North Carolina Board of Governors will visit the campus of the North Carolina School of the Arts on Monday, Nov. 4.

J. Bradley Wilson will be on the NCSA campus during the afternoon, meeting with Chancellor Wade Hobgood and members of the School’s senior administrative team. He will also be meeting with the faculty and staff councils of the School.

Wilson, a corporate attorney from Cary, was elected to a two-year term as chairman of the UNC Board of Governors in July.

Senior vice president, corporate secretary, and general counsel to Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina, Wilson was first appointed to the Board of Governors by the N.C. General Assembly in 1997. Currently a member of the board's Committee on Personnel and Tenure, he has previously served as vice chair and chair of the board's Committee on Budget and Finance and has twice chaired the Committee on Presidential Assessment.

A 1975 graduate of Appalachian State University, Wilson earned his law degree from the Wake Forest University School of Law before entering private law practice in Lenoir. In 1992, he was named general counsel to Gov. James B. Hunt Jr., a post he held until being named acting secretary of the N.C. Department of Crime Control and Public Safety in 1995. Later that same year, Wilson assumed his current position at BCBSNC, where he oversees all legal matters, governmental and regulatory issues, and corporate policy and management.

Chairman of the N.C. Railroad Company board and immediate past chairman of the Meredith College board, Wilson previously has served on the N.C. Board of Transportation and on the boards of the N.C. Child Advocacy Institute, the Baptist Children's Homes of North Carolina, and the N.C. Council of School Attorneys. Active in professional and civic organizations, he is a past president of the ASU Yosef Club and a former member of the ASU Foundation board and the ASU Alumni Council. A past fellow of the N.C. Institute of Political Leadership, he was named to Business Leader magazine's "Impact 100" list in 1997.

The North Carolina School of the Arts is located at 1533 S. Main St., Winston-Salem.

MEDIA: You are invited to meet Chairman Wilson from 1 to 1:45 p.m., when he will be having lunch with students in the School’s cafeteria. For more information, contact Nancy Dawson-Sauser, director of public relations at NCSA, at 336-770-3335.

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