Former Wrightsville Beach mayor appointed to NHC Endowment Board

NEW HANOVER COUNTY — Among the three nominations for the county’s endowment board, a Republican-majority vote secured the winning appointment at Monday’s board of commissioners meeting. 

Bill Blair, former mayor of Wrightsville Beach, was appointed to the New Hanover Community Endowment board of directors following a motion from Commissioner Leanne Pierce with seconds from Commissioner Dane Scalise and Chairman Bill Rivenbark. 

Carl Brown, former vice president at Cape Fear Community College, was nominated by Commissioner Jonathan Barfield while Sheree Darien, a board member at the Harrelson Center, was nominated by Commissioner Rob Zapple.

Blair, the winning nominee, has dedicated ten years to local government, serving as a member of the Wrightsville Beach Board of Aldermen and the town’s planning board before becoming mayor of the beach town in 2013, a position he held for six years.

Blair is joining the 13-member board, replacing Stedman Stevens, whose three-year term will conclude on Sept.30. Stevens, one of the founding members of the endowment, began his term in December 2020 following the $1.3 million sale of New Hanover Regional Medical Center to Novant Health.

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