RALEIGH -- The State Employees Association of North Carolina elected a new slate of officers to lead the association in the upcoming year on Sept. 10-12 at SEANC’s annual convention at the Joseph S. Koury Convention Center in Greensboro.

• President – Ross Hailey of Washington, retired Department of Transportation engineer with 27 years of state service.
• First Vice President – Stanley Drewery of Grifton, retired from both the Department of Transportation and the Department of Public Safety with 30 years of state service.
• Second Vice President – Gloria Evans of Winterville, an administrative support specialist with the East Carolina University School of Medicine, with 13 years of state service.
• General Treasurer – Darius McLaurin of Raleigh, a business officer in educational services for the deaf & blind with the Department of Public Instruction, with 22 years of state service.
• In addition, Wayne Fish of Maggie Valley will serve on SEANC’s Executive Committee as Immediate Past President. Fish is a correctional food services manager II at Craggy Correctional Center in Asheville with 17 years of state service. Statewide EMPAC Chairman Tony Smith of Morganton was elected to a two-year term in 2014 and did not face re-election. He is a maintenance supervisor at Foothills Correctional Institution in Morganton with 23 years of state service.

The newly elected officers were sworn in at a banquet on Saturday night and will take office on Oct. 1, 2015.

Also at this year’s SEANC Convention, delegates passed bylaws amendments setting up a committee of members to audit all aspects of SEANC finances. The members of this committee will have a background in finance and will be elected by their peers each year at the annual convention.

A bylaws change to allow part-time and temporary employees to join SEANC as full members was also approved, as well as several restructuring changes to both SEANC and EMPAC bylaws.

Delegates also donated more than $13,000 to SEANC’s Scholarship Foundation and added their names to the Delete Blood Cancer bone marrow registry in honor of SEANC Lobbyist Kevin LeCount, who is battling Acute Myeloid Leukemia.