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About ESC
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Chairman
Lynn R. Holmes
Lynn R. Holmes is the former assistant vice-president of ethics and compliance at BellSouth Corporation
(now AT&T), where she began her 20-year career. Before joining BellSouth, she served as a legislative
counsel in the United States Senate. Prior to accepting the ESC chairmanship, Holmes was the principal
in Ross Holmes Group, LLC, a consulting practice focused on ethics, compliance and governmental relations
and policy.
She is a native of Memphis and graduated from Mount Holyoke College and from the Georgetown
University Law Center. Additionally, she completed the Advanced Management Program at the Fuqua School
of Business at Duke University.
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Deputy Chairman & Chief Operating Officer
David L. Clegg
David L. Clegg serves as Deputy Chairman & Chief Operating Officer for the Employment Security Commission of North Carolina. Prior to his current
appointment, Clegg served as Deputy Chairman for Administration & Communications. Previously, he was Deputy Commissioner and Director of Governmental
Relations. He has also has served the agency as acting Chief Legal Counsel.
As Deputy Chairman and Chief Operating Officer, Clegg oversees day-to-day operations of the agency. Most of ESC's divisions - Employment Services,
Unemployment Insurance and Labor Market Information, the Information Technology Office, Information Technology Project Management Office, Public
Information Office, Publications Division and Labor Market Development Services - report to Clegg. He plans and directs the ESC's comprehensive
legislative program on the state and federal level, and serves as ESC liaison to government officials and agencies regarding matters of policy
and constituent service. In addition, he manages the staff representing the agency in administrative hearings, and, in state and federal courts.
Prior to joining the Employment Security Commission, Clegg served ten years as the County Attorney and County Manager of Brunswick County,
the only individual in the state to hold both positions simultaneously. His local government experience also includes service as a Board of
Elections member, and as Chairman of the Lower Cape Fear Water and Sewer Authority. David is currently a member of the Raleigh Telecommunications Commission.
He received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Government from Hampden-Sydney College and a Master of Arts Degree in Theater and Speech from the
University of South Carolina. He was awarded the Juris Doctor Degree from the University of South Carolina School of Law and is licensed
to practice law before the Supreme Court of the United States.
Email: david.clegg@ncesc.gov
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Assistant Chairman for Organizational Effectiveness
Muriel K. Offerman
Muriel K. Offerman serves as the ESC's Assistant Chairman for Organizational Effectiveness. As Assistant Chairman,
Offerman oversees agency's Office of Organizational Effectiveness and the Internal Audit division.
She came to the ESC as Deputy Chairman for Administration on March 25, 2001. Before coming to the ESC, Offerman served for five
years as Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Revenue within then-Gov. Jim Hunt's Cabinet. Before rising
to secretary of the 1,200-person department, she spent three years as Revenue's deputy secretary. While at that
agency, she served on the National Federation of Tax Administrators Board of Trustees, and was elected to the
national board of directors for Women Executives in State Government.
Customer service is a trademark Offerman established not only as she directed the Dept. of Revenue, but in 24
years with her family's retail business, Kramer's, a department store in Wallace. She later became president of
the corporation.
Offerman has long been active in numerous local, regional, state and national organizations, working on matters
important to her and those around her. In the past, she has been active, and served in leaderships positions,
with these groups and organizations: President, Wallace Chamber of Commerce; Board Member, Wallace Branch,
North Carolina National Bank (NCNB, now Bank of America); Vice-President, Duplin County Education Foundation;
Vice-President, Tar Heel Fine Arts Society; President, Hadassah; Vice-President, Wallace Committee of 100;
Member, Duplin County Schools Advisory Board; and, Chair, Duplin County Democratic Party.
Beginning in 1988 and continuing through the present in many respects, Offerman has provided her talents and
leadership to the following organizations. She has been: Member, Democratic National Committee; Member N.C.
GIS Council; Member, N.C. Local Government Commission; Former Chair & Current Member, State Management Improvement
Committee; Chair (2-Years) State Employees Combined Campaign; Life Member, Hadassah; and, Member, Board of Trustees,
James Sprunt Community College. Other key organizations are part of Offerman's current slate. Among those are:
Board Member, Jewish Heritage Foundation Of N.C.; Current President & Former Treasurer, President-Elect, Women's
Forum Of N.C.; Current President & Treasurer, Raleigh Executives Club; Board Member, Triangle United Way; and,
Member, Board Of Trustees, N.C. Fiscal Literacy Foundation.
Numerous honors have come Offerman's way, including: Member, Lillian's List; Outstanding Young Women of America;
Recipient, North Carolina Order of the Long Leaf Pine; Who's Who Of American Women; Y2K Woman In Government Award;
Distinguished Service Award from the North Carolina Grand Lodge Of Masons; Who's Who In America; and, the Women of
Achievement Award from the General Federation Of Women's Clubs Of North Carolina.
A graduate of Wallace High School, where she was valedictorian, Offerman attended Smith College for three years and
earned a degree in humanities from the University of Chicago.
She and her husband, Max, have three children and seven grandchildren.
Email: muriel.k.offerman@ncesc.gov
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Assistant Chairman for Finance & Administration
Kevin D. Carlson
Kevin D. Carlson is an Assistant Chairman for the Employment Security Commission of North Carolina.
As Assistant Chairman, Carlson oversees the agency’s Finance & Budget, Support Services and Human Resources
divisions. Agency purchasing, maintenance, mailroom, shipping and receiving are also under his direction.
Carlson has been with the ESC for 20-years, joining the agency as an Accountant in 1989. Prior to that,
he was an Accounting Analyst For Schlumberger Industries in Alabama. Previously, at Blount Construction Group,
also in Alabama, Mr. Carlson worked in several roles, from Project Accountant to Administrative Manager.
Carlson was graduated from Florida State University in 1985 with a Batchelor of Science degree in Finance.
Email: kevin.carlson@ncesc.gov
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Deputy Chairman & Chief Legal Counsel
Thomas S. Whitaker
Thomas S. Whitaker currently serves as the ESC's Chief Legal Counsel. Since joining the Employment Security
Commission in 1975, Whitaker has served the ESC as acting chairman, chief of staff, deputy chairman for
administration, deputy chairman for programs, legal counsel, deputy commissioner, chief deputy commissioner,
assistant legislative counsel, chief legislative counsel, and chief counsel (a previous appointment earlier in
his career).
Whitaker was selected to serve on the Interstate Conference of Employment Security Agencies (ICESA) Unemployment
Insurance Committee in 1997, was named Vice-Chairman in 1998, and Chairman in 1999. He was selected to serve on
the Board of the National Association of State Workforce Agencies in 2000, and in 2003 was named Chairman of the
Information Technology Committee. In September 2005, he was elected NASWA's Secretary.
He was named Administrator of the Year by the National Association of Workforce Professionals in 2002 for his
innovative technological changes that significantly altered the way ESC provides services including introduction
of the ESC Web Portal project.
Whitaker is a graduate of Catawba College and the Wake Forest University School of Law where he received a Juris Doctor Degree.
After graduation, he was appointed attorney and hearing officer for the North Carolina Alcoholic Control Board. He
also served as a deputy clerk of Superior Court before moving to the Employment Security Commission in 1975.
Whitaker is married and has three children.
Email: tom.whitaker@ncesc.gov
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