RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - The North Carolina Senate has elected a recent colleague and a former state Republican Party chairman to the University of North Carolina Board of Governors.
Former Sen. Bob Rucho of Matthews and Tom Fetzer of Wilmington were among six elected Wednesday to four-year terms on the panel, which oversees the UNC system’s 17 campuses.
Rucho served in the Senate over two decades before declining to seek re-election last year. He was an architect of the GOP’s tax overhaul laws. Fetzer is a former Raleigh mayor and now a lobbyist.
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The four other people chosen are Marty Kokis of Greensboro, Steven Long of Raleigh, Harry Smith Jr. of Greensboro and Randall Ramsey of Beaufort. Kokis, Long and Smith were re-elected.
The House will soon elect six other UNC board members.
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