Andy Willis may be Gov.-elect Beverly Perdue's legislative liaison.
Currently the vice president for government relations for the University of North Carolina system, Willis' name surfaced this week as a likely pick to lobby the legislature for Perdue.
Willis has a lot of experience at the legislature.
From 1996 to 2003, he was a senior budget analyst with the Fiscal Research Division of the General Assembly, serving as the primary staffer for the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee.
Perdue chaired that committee from 1995 to 2000.
For three years afterward, he worked a an assistant to the chancellor of N.C. State University. He's been at the UNC system for the past three years.
He has an undergraduate degree from N.C. State and a master's of public administration from UNC-Chapel Hill.
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