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For immediate release.
June 27, 2001
Contact: Jesse Rutledge, N.C. Center for Voter Education,
(919) 839-1200

Leslie Winner, Ed Wilson Join Board

RALEIGH – The North Carolina Center for Voter Education announced today that Leslie Winner, a former N.C. State Senator from Mecklenburg County, and Ed Wilson Jr., a lawyer and former candidate for statewide office from Rockingham County, have joined the organization’s Board of Directors. Winner and Wilson attended their first Center Board meeting on June 26th in Raleigh.

“Ms. Winner and Mr. Wilson bring a wide-range of experience and expertise to our Board,” said Robert Morgan, the former United States Senator who serves as Chairman of the Board. “We expect their contributions to be nothing short of outstanding as we pursue our goal of improving the quality and responsiveness of the North Carolina election system.”

Leslie Winner served three terms in the North Carolina Senate between 1992-1998. Originally from Asheville, North Carolina, Winner currently serves as Vice President and General Counsel of the University of North Carolina.

“Working with this Board and this organization will give me the chance to contribute to finding ways we can improve our elections in North Carolina, and that’s something I care about very deeply,” said Winner.

Ed Wilson is a native of Winston-Salem and a graduate of the School of Law at Wake Forest University. He has a private practice in Eden, North Carolina. Among other Boards on which he serves are BoysCamp, the Piedmont Land Conservancy and Save our State.

“I look forward to working with Senator Morgan and other members of the Board to help the Center advance its goal of comprehensive campaign finance reform for North Carolina.”

The addition of Winner and Wilson expands membership on the Center for Voter Education’s governing body to six. In addition to Chairman Robert Morgan, Board members include: Tom Coulson of Marshall, President of North Carolina Voters for Clean Elections; Jack Betts of Raleigh, an Associate Editor with the Charlotte Observer; and Pearl Berlin, a civic activist from High Point.

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