Lottery Appointments
From Gov. Mike Easley's office:
RALEIGH – Gov. Mike Easley today appointed John McArthur of Cary as chair and Bryan Beatty of Raleigh to the N.C. Lottery Commission.
McArthur takes the place of Charles Sanders, who has stepped down after heading up the lottery commission for its inaugural year. More from the release, after the jump:
McArthur is senior vice president of corporate relations, general counsel and corporate secretary of Progress Energy Service Company. Prior to that he served as a Senior Assistant for policy and legal affairs for Easley. He previously served in government affairs with General Electric Company and was chief counsel in the N.C. Attorney General’s Office. McArthur received his undergraduate degree from Davidson College and his law degree from the University of South Carolina, where he also served as editor of the Law Review.Beatty is secretary of the N.C. Department of Crime Control and Public Safety. He is former director of the State Bureau of Investigation and the former Inspector General. Beatty also served as an associate attorney general and an assistant attorney general with the N.C. Department of Justice. He received his bachelor’s degree in political science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his law degree from UNC-Chapel Hill. He is also a graduate of N.C. State Bureau of Investigation Academy at Salemburg.
The N.C. Lottery Commission is charged with determining how to operate the North Carolina education lottery including the types of lottery games and the rules for the games, establishing a system to claim prizes, specifying the manner of distributing lottery tickets, authorizing advertising within specific limits, charging a fee for the criminal record check required of lottery vendors, and specifying the roles of the Director and other employees of the Commission within certain restrictions set forth by legislation. The Governor appoints five members while the Senate President Pro Tempore and Speaker of the House each appoint two members.
One of the Governor’s five appointees is required to have at least five years’ law enforcement experience. The Chairman serves at the pleasure of the Governor.
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