Commissioner Kathleen Ferguson


Commissioner Kathleen Ferguson
Commissioner Kathleen Ferguson
Current term:
2021-2025
Previous terms:
2013-2017, 2017-2021
About

Originally from Huntsville, Alabama, Kathleen Ferguson has lived in the Hillsborough Heights community in Hillsborough since January 2001. Her areas of focus include affordable housing, regional collaboration, clean energy, economic development, mental health, substance misuse, and domestic violence recovery. She has been active in Fairview Community Watch since 2004. Previously, Ferguson was chair of the Orange County Economic Development Commission and a member of the Orange County Small Business Loan Program board. Professionally, she has served in clinical research delivery strategy, budgeting, and process improvement since 2001. She is employed as senior director of biostatistical consulting services for ICON.

In her spare time, Ferguson is a reiki master teacher and fur parent to Smarticus, a 3-year-old labradoodle.

Committee assignments

Ferguson represents the town in the following capacities:

  • Central Pines Council of Governments Board of Delegates 
  • Hillsborough Water and Sewer Advisory Group (rotation) 
  • Orange County Housing Collaborative 
  • Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness 
Areas of personal focus

Ferguson has been involved in community service through:

  • Bottom Line Burlesque and Comedy Troupe, board member
  • Central Carolina Women in Business
  • Central Pines Council of Governments Legislative Committee, co-chair
  • Central Pines Council of Governments, chair
  • Central Pines Council of Governments 501(c)3 Board of Directors, vice chair
  • Fairview Community Watch, active since 2006
  • Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association, mentor
  • Hillsborough Heights Neighborhood Watch, cofounder and leader since 2004
  • MentorNC and My Brothers and Sisters Keeper, advisory board member
  • Leadership Triangle Transforming Leaders, Goodmon fellow
  • N.C. Association of Regional Councils of Government Elected Leaders Forum
  • N.C. League of Municipalities Legislative Action Committee
  • N.C. Women in Municipal Government, chair
  • Orange County Continuum of Care, project committee member for Housing and Urban Development and emergency solutions grant
  • Orange County Historical Museum, board member
  • Orange County Opioid Task Force
  • Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness, racial equity committee member
  • Orange County  Reentry Council Advisory Board, local government representative
Contact information

PO Box 429, Hillsborough, NC 27278
919-296-9412 (town)
919-923‐5060 (home)

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