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Norma B. Turnage Distinguished Citizen
and Educator
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Norma Turnage is a native of Rocky Mount, North Carolina. She is married to former Mayor, Fred Turnage of Rocky Mount and is the mother of two children (John and Trevor) and Grandmother of five grandchildren (Elizabeth, Olivia, Charlie, Rob, and John Graham).
Graduating from Rocky Mount Senior High, she attended U.N.C. Greenboro receiving a B.A. in Education. She later attended U.N.C. Chapel Hill and North Carolina Wesleyan for additional studies.
She has served as a hands-on educator and classroom teacher in Winston-Salem and for the Rocky Mount City Schools. Her profession also includes: Title III Director for Rocky Mount City, Nash and Edgecombe County Schools, and President of Josh Bulluck's Barbeque, Inc.
Our honoree currently serves as the chairperson of the Nash Health Care System Foundation board. In addition, she has twice co-chaired a Day for Wesleyan, raising a record amount of money in spite of the 2009 recession. Mrs. Turnage served as Chairperson during the consolidation of YWCA & YMCA and still serves today as a Board Member and Chairperson. Other Local Boards and Activities include: RBC Bank's Local Advisory Board and Nash
Health Care Systems Foundation Board and current Chairperson.
Not only has our community been blessed by her service, but our state as well. Catching the eye and ear of former Governor, Jim Hunt, she was appointed to a number of boards and commissions, including 10 years on the State Board of Education, and currently to the State Board of Community Colleges, as well as the Board of Trustees of UNC-Greensboro. Other Boards and Commissions she has served on include: NC Juvenile Code Revision Commission, NC Commission to establish an Independent
Board for North Carolina Community College System, NC Task Force on Rural Prosperity, NC Rural Economic Development Corporation, and the NC State Board of Cummunity College.
Receiving many awards and recognitions is not an unusual thing for such an outstanding citizen as Mrs. Turnage. She has been awared the Who's Who in Education, NC Association of Educators Award of Distinction, Boy Scouts of American Distinguished Citizens Award, and the Order of Long Leaf Pine Recipient presented by Governor James B. Hunt.
A member of Lakeside Baptist Church for 48 years has also afforded her many opportunities of service to her church where she has served on the Board of Deacons, Chair Board Member on the Finance, Personnel, & Music Committee, and the Pastoral Search Committee. She recently chaired the Organ Committee, which was responsible for acquisitions and installation of new pipe organ.
We appreciate the many contributions made by this amazing woman and count it a privilege to present Norma B. Turnage with the Distinguished Citizen Award for 2010.
Local News Coverage of Turnage Award