The Wake County Board of Education has selected Keith Sutton to represent District 4 on the school board through November 2011 following the resignation of former chair Rosa Gill.
Sutton, 39, is the legislative affairs program manager for the North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. He is a past president and chief executive officer of the Triangle Urban League. In his application letter, Sutton wrote, “Since 1995, I have worked in the areas of race, government and community relations, as well as served as a nonprofit executive, and community and political organizer.” Sutton served on the Healthy Schools Task Force, the board of directors of the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce, the Blue Ribbon Committee on the Future of Wake County, and the Southeast Raleigh Assembly.
Sutton has two daughters, one of whom is entering the first grade at Conn Elementary School.