| Ferrell
Blount | Chairman
Ferrell Blount
was elected NCGOP Chairman on August 2, 2003. At the time, Ferrell
served as National Committeeman to the Republican National
Committee, which he held since August 1996. During his tenure as
national committeeman, Ferrell served as Chairman of the RNC
Resolutions Committee, as well as the RNC Committee on Call for the
2004 National Republican Convention. Ferrell was honored in 2003 to
make the nominating speech for incoming National Chairman, Ed
Gillespie.
Politics has been a long-time passion for Ferrell, from service on
the Pitt County (N.C.) Board of Education to the N.C. Wildlife
Commission in the Jim Martin Administration. Other party activities
have included finance co-chair for Congressman Walter B. Jones, Jr.
(R-NC3), finance co-chairman for the N.C. Victory Program in 1996,
1998, 2000 and 2002, and numerous other local and district party
positions.
Ferrell's other activities include teaching Sunday school, singing
in the local church choir, and serving as president of the Council
on Finance and Administration in the N.C. Annual Conference of the
United Methodist Church, which administers the conferences annual
budget.
Ferrell has been involved for many years in farming and farming
enterprises in Eastern North Carolina.
Ferrell is also an Eagle Scout and a former scout master.
Ferrell graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill in 1972 and is married to the former Lynda Jordan. They have
three adult children.
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Linda
Daves | Vice Chairman
 Linda
Daves was elected Vice Chairman of the North Carolina
Republican Party in May 1999 and reelected at the NCGOP conventions
in May 2001 and May 2003.
Prior to that she served in several positions in the Mecklenburg
County Republican Party
including serving four years as Chairman after two years as Vice
Chairman.
Linda has worked
in numerous campaigns over the years to elect Republicans.
In her most recent campaign she served as Mecklenburg
County’s coordinator for the state party’s Victory 2002 regional
phone bank to elect U.S. Senator Elizabeth Dole.
In 2000 she was the Mecklenburg County grassroots coordinator
for George W. Bush for President and the coordinator for the state
party’s Victory 2000 regional phone bank in Mecklenburg.
Linda’s past
experience includes teaching junior and senior high school for six
years after college. She
worked as Vice President of a family owned textile business for
fourteen years. For the
past seven years she has spent her time managing her and her husband
Carson’s rental properties in Charlotte where they live.
She
is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and
holds a MEd from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Linda says that if there were one idea she could impart to all
Republicans it would be this: “One
person can make a difference.”
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Jim Cain |
National
Committeeman
Jim
Cain, the Republican National Committeeman from North Carolina,
was elected by the NCGOP in 2003.
Prior to becoming the National Committeeman, the Charlotte native
served as the president and chief operating officer of the Carolina
Hurricanes, a tenure that was topped off by their remarkable run to
the Stanley Cup finals in 2002.
Jim
has already enjoyed a distinct career in politics and
business. Jim worked for then governor Ronald Reagan in a 1976
presidential primary in North Carolina against President Gerald
Ford, and ran the youth campaign for Sen. Jesse Helms’ successful
re-election win over Commissioner of Insurance John Ingram.
Cain also helped run the campaign and organize the office of the
late Sen. John East in Washington and worked in the successful
Reagan for President campaign in 1980.
Jim
Cain received an undergraduate degree in Politics and a law degree
from Wake Forest University. After Jim graduated from the Wake
Forest School of Law in the spring of 1984, he served as legal
counsel for Sen. Helms in his re-election campaign against Gov. Jim
Hunt. Then, Jim went to work for the Winston-Salem law firm of
Petree Stockton where he opened their Raleigh office.
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Linda
O. Shaw |
National
Committeewoman
 Present:
National Committeewoman, North Carolina Republican Executive
Committee, elected May 30, 1992 · Secretary, Republican National
Committee, elected January 17, 1997 · Member, North Carolina
Federation of Republican Women, 1964-present · Member, County,
State and Central Committees · Member, Advisory Committee, The
Coalition of Republican Environmental Activists (CREA), 1997-present
· Member, Republican Patrons of the Arts (RPA), 1997-present ·
Guilford County Commissioner, Dec. 1998-present · Board of
Directors, American Red Cross, 1998-present · Guilford County Board
of Health Department, Dec. 1998-present
Previous: PTA President,
Nashville, 1967-1969 · Secretary, Guilford County Republican Party,
1972-1974 · Special Education Officer, N.C. Department of
Corrections, 1976-1978 · Member, American Business Women's
Association, 1984-1986 · Member, Board of Trustees, North Carolina
Museum of Art, 1984-1990 · State Co-Chairman, Jim Gardner for Lt.
Governor, 1988 · Member, State Executive Committee, Bush/Quayle,
1988, 1992 · Volunteer Instructor, "Straight" Drug
program, 1990-1991 · Candidate, North Carolina House of
Representatives, 1990 · Director, Campaign '92, North Carolina
Republican Executive Committee · Member, Board of Directors,
Greensboro Convention and Visitors Bureau, 1990-1996; Secretary and
Vice Chairman, 1993-1996
RNC Activity: RNC Standing
Committee on Rules, 1994-1996 · RNC Executive Committee,
1996-present · Secretary, Republican National Committee,
1996-present · RNC Committee on Arrangements, Republican National
Convention, 2000 · Secretary, Republican National Convention, 2000
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Joan
Fleming |
Secretary
Joan Fleming was re-elected
secretary of the North Carolina Republican Party in August 2003.
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Harris
Vaughan I Treasurer
R. Harris Vaughan, III
was elected
treasurer of the North Carolina Republican Party in August 2003.
He served previously as NCGOP Assistant Treasurer.
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