U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan has changed up her staff.

The Greensboro Democrat named as her new state director Melissa Midgett, a Dare County native who has worked for her for several years, most recently as deputy state director.

Hagan also named as her new deputy state director Tony Caravano, deputy director of UNC Tomorrow at the University of North Carolina System.

Caravano formerly worked for Senate leader Marc Basnight, a key ally of Hagan's when she was in the state Senate.

The staff changes come a little more than a month after Hagan hired and immediately fired longtime fiscal analyst Fred Aikens and let go of state political director Muthoni Wambu.

The state chapter of the NAACP is looking into those firings.

Update: Hagan also announced that Jennifer Johnson will work as constituent services director and Caitlin Legacki will be state press secretary.

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Sen.-elect Kay Hagan has named her senior Senate staffers.

The Greensboro Democrat chose to keep several of her campaign staffers on board as she moves in to her new Washington office.

Campaign manager Crystal King will be Hagan's new chief of staff; deputy campaign manager and political director Muthoni Wambu will be state director; deputy finance director Melissa Midgett will be deputy state director; and scheduling director Forest Michaels and spokeswoman Colleen Flanagan will continue in those roles.

"I am ecstatic that these staff members, who were such a huge part of my victory, have chosen to continue on with me in my U.S. Senate office," Hagan said in a statement.

The group includes North Carolina natives — Midgett and Michaels — as well as D.C. veterans — King, Wambu and Flanagan. 

Additional staffers will be hired in the next few weeks.

After the jump, where staff worked before.

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