The University of North Carolina Board of Governors has appointed two new members of the UNC-TV Board of Trustees, Norma Mills of Manteo and David Paulson of Raleigh. Both terms will run through June 2008.

Mills is the county attorney in Dare County, a position she has held since February 2003. Prior to assuming that position she served from 1993 to 2003 as general counsel and chief of staff to President Pro Tempore Marc Basnight of the North Carolina General Assembly. She has also taught as an adjunct faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law, and she previously served as an assistant attorney general for the state of North Carolina and on the staff of Legal Services of North Carolina. She also serves on the Board of Directors of a number of local and regional organizations, including the Roanoke Island Historical Association, the Friends of the Institute of Government Northeastern Regional Council, the Dare County 4-H Foundation, the UNC Chapel Hill Board of Visitors, and the Outer Banks Hotline. She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Paulson is the managing partner of the Raleigh office of Helms Mulliss & Wicker, PLLC, a large corporate law firm with offices in Charlotte, Raleigh, and Wilmington. He focuses his law practice on corporate transactions and serving as outside general counsel to businesses in a variety of industries throughout North Carolina. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Durham Nativity School, a private middle school for inner-city boys in Durham. He is also an active member of Christ Episcopal Church in Raleigh. He has an undergraduate degree in political science from Duke University and MBA and law degrees from Wake Forest University.

Margaret Suppler, the chair of the UNC-TV Board of Trustees, praised both appointments saying, “We are extremely pleased to have two such distinguished and capable people join our board. I’m sure their broad experience and obvious leadership qualities will be invaluable to UNC-TV, and we look forward to the opportunity to benefit from their support and wise counsel.”

Member-supported UNC-TV is the 11-station statewide digital public television service of the University of North Carolina.

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