2012 N.C. Award for Public Service: Janice H. Faulkner

Former Governor James B. Hunt, Jr. tapped Janice H. Faulkner to lead three North Carolina agencies in the 1990s. Each time, she rose to the challenge and transformed the workplaces. Hunt appointed her Secretary of the N.C. Department of Revenue in 1993, Secretary of State in 1996, and Commissioner of the N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles in 1997. Faulkner grew up in Martin County, lives in Greenville, and is a strong and effective advocate for regional economic development, and for her alma mater, East Carolina University. She is a member of the East Carolina University Foundation, was the inaugural chair of the Board of Visitors, and founding chair of the ECU Women's Roundtable. She has received the Distinguished Alumna Award and the school's highest award, the Jarvis Medal.