Ellie Kinnaird

Life and Orange County connections

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1. December 1, 1987 Eleanor Kinnaird is sworn in as mayor of Carrboro Elizabeth R. Holland administered the oath of office to Mayor-elect Eleanor Kinnaird at the Board of Aldermen meeting of December 1, 1987. The board had approved the abstract of votes cast at the November 3, 1987 election earlier in the meeting, and outgoing mayor James V. Porto Jr. and departing aldermen Zona Norwood and John Boone made their parting remarks.Search the index · Town of Carrboro: Board of Aldermen minutes, December 1, 1987
2. December 5, 1989 Eleanor Kinnaird is sworn in for a second term as mayor of Carrboro Town clerk Sarah C. Williamson administered the oath to Mayor-elect Kinnaird and to aldermen-elect Hilliard Caldwell and Tom Gurganus after the board approved the abstract of votes from the November 7, 1989 election. Jacquelyn Gist was sworn in as an alderman at the same meeting. People: Hilliard Caldwell, Jacquelyn GistSearch the index · Town of Carrboro: Board of Aldermen minutes, December 5, 1989
3. December 5, 1989 Jacquelyn Gist is sworn in as a Carrboro alderman Robin Lackey administered the oath of office to alderman-elect Jacquelyn Gist at the Board of Aldermen meeting of December 5, 1989. The board had approved the abstract of votes cast at the November 7, 1989 election earlier in the same meeting, at which Eleanor Kinnaird was also sworn in as mayor. People: Ellie KinnairdSearch the index · Town of Carrboro: Board of Aldermen minutes, December 5, 1989
4. November 20-22, 1992 The Eighth International Conference of Lesbian and Gay Officials meets in Chapel Hill More than 75 openly lesbian and gay elected and appointed officials from across the United States and Canada met at the Carolina Inn for fundraisers, planning sessions and seminars after the 1992 election. Chapel Hill Mayor Ken Broun and Carrboro Mayor Eleanor Kinnaird addressed the conference, and B-GLAD supplied volunteers. People: Ellie KinnairdLambda (Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, UNC), January 1993, p. 5
5. September 13, 1994 Carrboro Board of Aldermen adopts a domestic partnership registry The Board voted unanimously to amend the Town Code so that statements of domestic partnership could be filed with the Town Clerk, set the effective date at October 11, 1994, added a $40 registration fee, and extended the financial disclosure required of elected officials to cover their domestic partners. The Board took no action on a third proposal to extend health insurance benefits to domestic partners of town employees. People: Mike Nelson, Jacquelyn Gist, Ellie KinnairdTown of Carrboro: Board of Aldermen minutes, September 13, 1994
6. June 6, 1995 Carrboro votes to pay for domestic partner coverage in its employee health plan Setting town employee health insurance for fiscal 1995-96, the Board of Aldermen voted that the town would bear any expense of adding coverage for domestic partners to its Kaiser plan, after asking staff on May 23 to find out why the insurer Healthsource did not offer such coverage. The vote was six to one, with Michael Nelson opposed. People: Mike Nelson, Jacquelyn Gist, Ellie KinnairdTown of Carrboro: Board of Aldermen minutes, June 6, 1995
7. November 7, 1995 Mike Nelson is elected mayor of Carrboro Michael R. Nelson, then a member of the Carrboro Board of Aldermen, won the mayor's race at the municipal election held on November 7, 1995, becoming the first openly gay mayor elected in North Carolina. The Board approved the Orange County abstract of votes from that election at its meeting of December 5, 1995. People: Mike Nelson, Ellie KinnairdTown of Carrboro: Board of Aldermen minutes, December 5, 1995
8. December 5, 1995 Mike Nelson is sworn in as mayor of Carrboro At the Board of Aldermen meeting of December 5, 1995, outgoing mayor Eleanor Kinnaird gave closing remarks and Mayor-elect Michael R. Nelson took the oath of office, along with aldermen-elect Jay Bryan, Hilliard Caldwell and Alex Zaffron. The Board then appointed Diana McDuffee to the alderman seat Nelson vacated. People: Mike Nelson, Ellie Kinnaird, Hilliard Caldwell, Diana McDuffee, Alex ZaffronTown of Carrboro: Board of Aldermen minutes, December 5, 1995
9. 1996 Ellie Kinnaird is elected to the North Carolina Senate Kinnaird left the Carrboro mayor's office for the state Senate, where she sat from 1997 until 2013 representing a district that included Orange County. She had earned a law degree from North Carolina Central University while serving as mayor.Search the index · UNC Libraries: Ellie Kinnaird (Facing Controversy: Struggling with Capital Punishment in NC)
10. October 24, 2004 Allan Gurganus speaks at the Festival for a Better Future rally on McCorkle Place Gurganus was a featured speaker, with law dean Gene Nichol and state Senator Ellie Kinnaird, at the Festival for a Better Future, a pre-election rally sponsored by several campus organizations on McCorkle Place. People: Ellie KinnairdSearch the index · DigitalNC: The Daily Tar Heel, October 22, 2004, page 3
11. August 19, 2013 Ellie Kinnaird resigns her state senate seat Kinnaird announced her resignation after nine terms, saying she could not get anything done in the short session as one of seventeen Democrats in a fifty-member chamber. She said she would instead work with churches and community groups to help voters obtain the photo identification the state had just begun to require. Democrats from the counties she represented were to choose her successor.Search the index · WUNC: Nine-Term Senate Democrat Ellie Kinnaird Resigns