North Carolina Cabinet

The Cabinet is the group of unelected heads of the executive departments of the North Carolina government. It is separate and distinct from the North Carolina Council of State, the members of which are elected state-wide, and which makes up the rest of the executive leadership of the government. All cabinet secretaries are appointed by the Governor.

The Cabinet's size decreased by two on Jan. 1, 2012, when three Cabinet-level agencies, the North Carolina Department of Crime Control and Public Safety, the North Carolina Department of Correction and the North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, were merged to become the North Carolina Department of Public Safety.^[1]

Current members

• Secretary of Administration: Bill Daughtridge
• Secretary of Commerce: John Skvarla
• Secretary of Cultural Resources: Susan Kluttz
• Secretary of Environment and Natural Resources: Donald van der Vaart^[2]
• Secretary of Health and Human Services: Aldona Wos
• Secretary of Revenue: Lyons Gray
• Secretary of Public Safety: Frank L. Perry^[3]
• Secretary of Transportation: Tony Tata

Governor Pat McCrory announced his initial Cabinet members before he took office on January 5, 2013, and he swore them into office the same day as his inauguration.^{[4] [5] [6]} McCrory also named senior officials who are not Cabinet "Secretaries," but hold posts with a similar rank as Cabinet officials:

• Chief of Staff: Thomas Stith
• Director of the Office of State Personnel: Neal Alexander
• Budget Director: Lee H. Roberts^[7]

References

• News & Observer: Who serves in the governor's cabinet? (2008)
• News & Observer: Get to know the cabinet (2009)