Ann Cherry, a retired North Carolina school teacher, was today named one of 35 national campaign co-chairs of President Barack Obama's re-election campaign.
Cherry retired in 2008 after 30 years of teaching band and general music in the public schools in Eastern North Carolina. Since then she has been involved in voluntary activity.
A graduate of East Carolina University, Cherry is a life long member of the N.C. Association of Educators.
Cherry is in some pretty high cotton. Other chairs include Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado, Gov. Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, former White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley, Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois, Caroline Kennedy, actress Eva Longoria, Gov. Deval Patrick of Massachusetts, and Joe Solmonese, president of the Human Rights Campaign.
