The Hon. James B. Hunt, Jr. has been a member of the law firm of Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC, since 2001. Prior to that, he was Governor of North Carolina for four terms, 1977 to 1985 and 1993 to 2001, where he established the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina, the N.C. Biotechnology Center and the N.C. School of Science and Mathematics. He founded and chaired the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and currently chairs the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, the Hunt Institute for Educational Leadership and Policy, and the Institute for Emerging Issues. Mr. Hunt is a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and is a director of BioSignia, Inc. |