Carolyn Bond Morrison has been chosen to fill an empty seat on the Wake County Board of Education.

Tuesday the board selected Morrison to represent District 6 through November 2011 following the resignation of former board member Beverley Clark.

Morrison recently retired after serving as the director of the Division of Education at Peace College.

Prior to that, she was an associate professor in the School of Education at Campbell University and was chairperson for the State ABC Assistance Team for the NC Department of Public Instruction.

She had a long career in the Wake County Public School System serving as a principal at Lynn Road Elementary and Root Elementary, as a WCPSS Elementary Curriculum Consultant and as a teacher at Green Elementary.

She is a member of the Board of Visitors at Peace College, a recipient of the Order of the Long Leaf Pine from the state of NC, and served as an elder and deacon at her church, First Presbyterian Church of Raleigh, NC.

She is married to Fred G. Morrison, Jr., the Senior Administrative Law Judge for the NC Office of Administrative Hearings.