Under North Carolina law, the Employment Security Commission consists of seven members appointed by the Governor, including one member designated as Chairman. Commissioners serve at the pleasure of the Governor for a term of four years.

	Jack Cipriani Commissioner Cipriani is President of Teamsters Local Union 391 in Greensboro, Vice President of the State AFL-CIO, and Eastern Region Vice President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. He is the Director of the Brewery and Soft Drink Division of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, member of the State Workforce Development Commission, and active in the Boy Scouts of America. Term expires June 30, 2009.
	Thom Myers Commissioner Myers is State Director of Telamon Corporation’s North Carolina Operations. He has worked for Telamon since April 1970, directing the implementation and administration of its programs for the rural poor and especially migrant and seasonal farmworkers in North Carolina. Mr. Myers received a Bachelor of Arts degree from East Carolina University and is a long time Board member and former President of the National Trade Association for Farmworkers Employment and Training Organizations (AFOP). Term expires June 30, 2009
	Kevin McLaughlin Commissioner McLaughlin is the Chief Operating Officer & General Counsel for the N.C. Department of Administration. He joined the department in 2006 from the law firm of Van Winkle, Buck, Wall, Starnes and Davis, P.A. in Aseville, N.C. There, he became a partner in 2004, specializing in construction and commercial litigation. As a private practice attorney, he served on the Executive Committee of the N.C. Commission on Workforce Development, the state’s principal policy group for workforce development, on the Board of Partners-in-Education, and on the Executive Committee of the 28th Judicial District Bar. A native of Washington, N.C., McLaughlin received a B.A. from the University of North Carolina and subsequently spent two years managing a workforce development program for workers affected by mass layoffs in eastern North Carolina. In 1998, he received his J.D. from Wake Forest University. Term expires January 2011.
	Valerie Dorsett Commissioner Dorsett is an attorney advisor for the Transportation Security Administration in Charlotte. She provides legal advice and support for all aspects of TSA’s operations and all legal practice areas to federal security directors and their staffs, as well as federal air marshal special agents-in-charge and their staffs, in North and South Carolina. Ms. Dorsett received her LLM (master of law in Intellectual Property) from George Washington University’s School of Law, and a master’s degree in Sports Management from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. Term expires June 30, 2007.
	Ed Kelly Commissioner Kelly, of Greensboro, is a human resources consultant who has a broad background in areas such as safety, logistics and scheduling, along with recruitment and many other personnel specialties. He is a certified human resources professional and a member of the Society of Human Resource Managers. A native of Detroit, he served with Dow-Corning for 12-years, working in Elizabethtown (Kentucky) and Greensboro. Previous to that, he served for 10-years as an office manager and plant manager for Clark Engineering in Haslett (Michigan); was a partner in an insurance company; and was owner-operator of a transportation company. In Guilford County, he serves on the Board of Trustees at Guilford Technical Community College and on the Greensboro United Arts Council Board. He is a member of Providence Baptist Church in Greensboro. Term expires June 30, 2009.
	David Gantt Commissioner David Gantt is a practicing attorney in Asheville. He has served on the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners since 1996. He is a member of the Board for the Land of the Sky Regional Council, Asheville Airport Authority, and the Pack Square Conservancy. He has received state and national recognition for his commitment to pro bono legal representation. He is member of the Asheville Buncombe Human Relations Council and the UNC Chapel Hill Parent Council. He is a member of the Asheville Optimists, Jaycees, and is a graduate of Leadership Asheville. He is also a Sunday School Teacher at Central United Methodist Church. He is a native of Winston-Salem who grew up in Sanford. He was graduated in 1978 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a B.A. in Economics. He earned a J.D. from Campbell University School of Law in 1981. Term expires June 30, 2011.