SALISBURY, N.C. — North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley has reappointed Carl M. Short Jr., to the Rowan-Cabarrus Community College Board of Trustees for a four-year term.

            Short is a partner in the law firm of Woodson, Sayers, Lawther, Short, Parrott, Walker & Abramson LLP, of Salisbury. He has been a partner since 1976 and is a member of the North Carolina Bar Association and Real Property & Elder Law Sections. He is a past president of the Rowan County Bar Association.

            Short is a graduate of East Rowan High School, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of North Carolina School of Law. He currently serves as president of the Rowan County Library Foundation, trustee of the National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Foundation, and as a member of the local board of SunTrust Bank.

           Short is a former chair of the State Library Commission and Rowan County Library Board of Trustees. He is a former board member of the Rowan Chamber of Commerce, United Way, United Arts Council, Waterworks Visual Art Gallery, and Piedmont Players, and formerly served as president of the Salisbury Rotary Club.

            Short is married to Luanne Buddin Short. His son, Trip, graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and his daughter Louise is a junior at Wake Forest University. The Shorts attend Saint Luke’s Episcopal Church, where he has been a former vestry member and senior warden and served as a former trustee of the Saint Luke’s Foundation.

           Rowan-Cabarrus Community College is a comprehensive, community-based institution of higher learning, serving the citizens of Rowan and Cabarrus Counties. RCCC offers approximately 40 programs of study in business, health and human services and engineering technologies at multiple campus locations. RCCC annually provides more than 2,000 course offerings, serving an enrollment of approximately 20,000 adult students. RCCC programs include an associate degree in arts and sciences, an associate degree in applied science, and diploma and certificate programs focusing on workforce training, continuing education and basic skills education.

           In addition, RCCC provides the education and job-training programs needed to meet many of the workforce demands of the North Carolina Research Campus, under construction in Kannapolis, N.C.

           For complete details, see the RCCC website at www.rowancabarrus.edu.