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Pam Hemminger

Pam Hemminger served on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board from 2004 to 2008 and on the Orange County Board of Commissioners from 2008 to 2012, where she sat on the Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood Task Force. In 2015 she was elected mayor of Chapel Hill, the first challenger in five decades to unseat a sitting mayor. As mayor she created the town's Historic Civil Rights Commemorations Task Force in 2017.

Source: The Daily Tar Heel: Pam Hemminger elected during wave of local discontent

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Hemminger, Pam (Chapel Hill Historical Society vertical file)

A magazine article on Pam Hemminger, mayor of Chapel Hill from 2015 to 2023. Undated folder from box 4 of the Individuals and Families series, CHHS.001 Vertical File Collection.

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  1. Commissioners set the landfill's closing date and created the Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood Task Force On the night the Orange County commissioners voted to close the landfill on June 30, 2013, they also authorized an eight-member task force, with two members each from Chapel Hill, Carrboro, the county and RENA, to recommend how to deliver sewer service and a community center and how to guard against displacement. An interim report was due that August and a final report to the Assembly of Governments on December 6, 2012. People: Penny Rich, Pam HemmingerTown of Chapel Hill: Historic Rogers Road Neighborhood Task Force
  2. Danita Mason-Hogans presents Chapel Hill's civil rights timeline to the town council The Historic Civil Rights Commemorations Task Force, created by Mayor Pam Hemminger in the fall of 2017, gave the council a timeline of people, places and events in the town's civil rights struggle. Mason-Hogans, one of its leaders, told the council that who tells the history matters as much as the history itself. People: Pam HemmingerSearch the index · Chapelboro: Chapel Hill Receives Recommendations from Civil Rights Task Force
  3. Family and community march to remember James Cates on the 50th anniversary A candlelit march went from Hargraves Community Center to St. Joseph CME Church and down Franklin Street to Peace and Justice Plaza, where the Town of Chapel Hill invited residents to leave flowers and messages for the Cates family. Mayor Pam Hemminger pledged to work with the family and UNC to investigate the killing. People: Danita Mason-Hogans, James L. Cates Jr., Pam HemmingerChapelboro: Family, Community Members March to Remember James Cates 50 Years Later

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