Ann Gordon McCrory is an American human resources manager who, as the wife of Pat McCrory, was the first lady of Charlotte, North Carolina from 1995 to 2009 and first lady of North Carolina from 2013 to 2017.
18 Facts About Ann McCrory
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Ann McCrory has worked as the vice president of human resources for YMCA and as a regional human resources manager at Cigna.
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Ann McCrory was born on November 23,1956, at the Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Ann McCrory is the daughter of Colonel William Price Gordon, Jr.
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Ann McCrory attended Gaffney High School in Gaffney, South Carolina in the 1970s, where she was a classmate of the actress Andie MacDowell.
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Ann McCrory was a member of the school's Spanish club, Bible club, and the cheerleading squad.
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Ann McCrory received a bachelor's degree in education and history from Limestone College, where her father was a faculty member.
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Ann McCrory was a member of Limetsone's student senate and was historian of her sorority.
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Ann McCrory went on to earn a master's degree in counseling from Winthrop University.
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Ann McCrory worked as the vice president of human resources for YMCA and as a regional human resources manager at Cigna.
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From 1995 to 2009, Ann McCrory was the first lady of Charlotte, North Carolina, through her husband's seven terms as mayor.
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Ann McCrory had previously served three terms as a city councilman.
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Ann McCrory assumed the role of first lady of North Carolina and moved into the North Carolina Executive Mansion upon her husband's inauguration as governor in 2013.
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Ann McCrory rarely made public appearances and declined to host the Junior League's traditional First Lady's Luncheon in Raleigh in January 2013.
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In January 2013, after refusing to do the Junior League luncheon, Ann McCrory attended an event at the Durham Rescue Mission in Durham, North Carolina to serve a catered lunch with women and children served by the facility.
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Ann McCrory introduced a bill to the North Carolina State Legislature in 2013 which failed to pass.
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In 1983, while living in Columbia, South Carolina, Ann McCrory divorced her first husband and resumed use of her maiden name.
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Ann McCrory met her second husband, Pat McCrory, at a human resources convention in Atlanta.