For Immediate Release:
Tuesday, November 22, 2022
Contact: Nazneen Ahmed
919-716-0060
(RALEIGH) Attorney General Josh Stein today recognized 38 recipients of the Attorney General’s Dogwood Awards. Each year, Attorney General Stein recognizes North Carolinians who help to make their communities safer, stronger, and healthier.
“The Dogwood Awards present an opportunity to recognize how giving and impressive so many North Carolinians are,” said Attorney General Josh Stein. “This year’s honorees represent the best of us. They dedicate so much of their time to helping their neighbors and their communities. I’m grateful for their service to North Carolina, and it’s my privilege to honor them.”
This year’s recipients of the Dogwood Awards are being recognized for their efforts to test sexual assault kits, combat the opioid epidemic, improve health care, protect military service members, workers, and students, defend women’s reproductive freedoms, improve the criminal justice system, and create a stronger state.
The 2022 Dogwood Award recipients are:
- Lt. Stephen Vaughan, Durham Police Department
- Karen Parker, Safe Alliance
- Lauren Schwartz, InterAct
- Katherine Ariano, Duke Health
- Jenny Anand, UNC Health
- Sheriff Paula Dance, Pitt County
- Sgt. Candace Burlingame, Boone Police Department
- Rep. Wayne Sasser
- Michelle Mathis, Olive Branch Ministry
- Commissioner Johnnie Carswell, Burke County
- Sarah Gayton, Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office
- Maia Hughes, Buncombe County MAT Program
- Sen. Julie Mayfield
- Lavita Hill, Eastern Band of Cherokee
- Mary Crowe, Eastern Band of Cherokee
- Raleigh Police Department
- Tameka O’Neal, Novant Health
- District Attorney Billy West
- District Attorney Locke Bell
- District Attorney Robert Evans
- District Attorney Jim Woodall
- Sen. Brent Jackson
- Sheriff Bobby Kimbrough, Forsyth County
- Sheriff James Clemmons
- Sheriff Landric Reid
- Sheriff Hubert Peterkin
- Sheriff Danny Heath
- J. Steve Mason, Fire Chief, City of Wilmington
- Rep. Grier Martin
- Vernon Gammon, Teamsters
- Mike McGaha, Teamsters
- Dr. Virginia Newell, Winston-Salem State University
- Dr. Erica Pettigrew
- Brian Clark, NC Ports
- Janice Cole
- Stephen DeMay, Duke Energy
- James Ferguson
- Michella Huff, Surry County
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