NCPLA Leadership
As a professional association, NCPLA provides its members with updated resources, leadership opportunities and networking opportunities with fellow peers and legislators in North Carolina.
Officers
PRESIDENTAlex MillerAlex Miller Government Affairs | PRESIDENT-ELECTSarah BalesBrubaker & Associates |
SECRETARY / TREASURERKara Gleason WeishaarSmith Anderson | IMMEDIATE PAST PRESIDENTWhitney ChristensenWard and Smith, P.A. |
Board of Directors
Mia BaileyCharter Communications | Sarah BalesBrubaker & Associates |
Sarah BalesBrubaker & Associates | Kari BarsnessBarsness Policy Solutions |
Whitney ChristensenWard & Smith, PA | Justin ClaytonUnitedHealth Group |
Kim CrouchNC Advocates for Justice | Alicia DavisOffice of Governor Roy Cooper |
Demetrius DeloatchAPCO Worldwide | David FerrellNexsen Pruet |
Maeve GardnerJazz Pharmaceuticals | John HardinManning Fulton |
Lori Ann HarrisL.A. Harris & Associates, Inc. | Amber HarrisNorth Carolina Association of County Commissioners |
Cameron HenleyNavigator LLC | Phillip IsleyBlanchard, Miller, Lewis & Isley |
Tracy KimbrellTracy Kimbrell Government Affairs, LLC | Amy McConkeyThe University of North Carolina |
David McGowanAmerican Petroleum Institute | Alex MillerAlex Miller Government Affairs |
Andy MunnEQV Strategic | Chris PittmanNavigator LLC |
Elizabeth RobinsonNC Retail Merchants Association | Sarah SonnenbergWilliams Mullen |
Sue Ann SwiftManning Fulton | George TeagueNelson Mullins |
Susan VickFetzer Strategic Partners | Isabel Villa-GarciaNorth Carolina Association of REALTORS® |
Kara WeishaarSmith Anderson | Cassidy WhitleyAlex Miller Government Affairs |
NCPLA Staff
Chantel Isenhart
Executive Director
Past Presidents
2023-2024 – Whitney Christensen
2022-2023 – John Hardin
2021-2022 – Maeve Gardner
2020-2021 – David McGowan
2018-2020 – Kim Crouch
2016-2018 – Elizabeth Robinson
2014-2016 – Doug Heron
2012-2014 – Estherine Davis
2010-2012 – Amy Fullbright
2008-2010 – John Policastro
2006-2008 – Susan Valauri
2004-2006 – Christie Barbee
2002-2004 – Bill Scoggin
1998-2002 – Tom Morrow
