S1085: BOG Vacancy. Latest Version

2025-2026

Senate
Passed 1st Reading




GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA



SESSION 2025



S                                                                                                                                           Simple



                                                                                                                                       Resolution



                                                                                                                                          Adopted



SENATE RESOLUTION 1085



Adopted 6/4/26



 



Sponsors:

Senator Rabon (Primary Sponsor).

Referred to:

Select Committee on Nominations


June 2, 2026



A SENATE RESOLUTION Electing Leigh Jeffreys Fanning to the Board of Governors of The university of north carolina.



Whereas, O. Temple Sloan, III, of Wake County was elected by the Senate in 2023 to serve as a member of the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina for a term of four years; and



Whereas, O. Temple Sloan, III, resigned from the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina in April 2025; and



Whereas, G.S. 116‑7(c) directs the chamber that originally elected a vacating member of the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina to elect a person to fill that vacancy for the remainder of the unexpired term; and



Whereas, the Senate may determine its own procedure, and the Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Nominations has confirmed that Leigh Jeffreys Fanning has no disqualifying statutory disabilities; Now, therefore,



Be it resolved by the Senate:



SECTION 1.  Based upon the resignation of O. Temple Sloan, III, Leigh Jeffreys Fanning of Pitt County is elected to the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina for a term commencing upon the effective date of this resolution and ending June 30, 2027.



SECTION 2.  This resolution is effective upon adoption.