Gov. Beverly Perdue named the rest of a budget-cutting panel. 

The five appointees include Dan Gerlach, a former budget adviser to former Gov. Mike Easley who now runs the Golden LEAF Foundation, and Norma Houston, a former chief of staff to Senate leader Marc Basnight, the Associated Press reports.

Other new members include former Glaxo chief executive Charlie Sanders, the first chairman of the state lottery commission; IBM executive Curtis Clark; and N.C. Central department chairman Ron Penny.

Earlier this month, Perdue named former Cabinet member Norris Tolson and Hilda Pinnix-Ragland to head the committee.

The so-called Budget Reform and Accountability Commission will propose ways to cut state spending for the legislature to accept or reject.

Norma Houston, longtime adviser to Senate President Pro Tem Marc Basnight, is helping Gov.-elect Beverly Perdue's transition team plan for the new administration.

Houston, a lawyer and policy wonk who has twice served as Basnight's chief of staff, is helping sort out how Perdue's various promised initiatives can be put into place. The governor will have the power to take some of the steps on her own but others will require legislative approval or other more nuanced steps.

Houston also worked as the Dare County attorney but splits her time between her Outer Banks home and Chapel Hill. (The license plate on her convertible: OBX UNC.)

She currently serves as executive director of University of North Carolina Tomorrow, a project aimed at refocusing the university system's resources to better meet the state's needs now and in the future.

Her work for Perdue is unpaid, and she said Thursday that she is not going into the administration. She is committed to working for UNC President Erskine Bowles, she said.