Gov. Beverly Perdue and other elected officials will make history at this month’s meeting of the North Carolina Council of State.

Perdue presides Tuesday over her first council meeting since being elected governor in November. It’s also the first meeting in which there’s a female majority on the council, comprised of 10 statewide elected officials.

Six of the 10 are women following the elections of Beth Wood as state auditor and Janet Cowell as state treasurer.

The council usually approves land transactions on behalf of the state and signs off on borrowing decisions.

The gathering will probably take a somber tone after Monday’s death of former Insurance Commissioner Jim Long. He served on the council for 24 years before retiring last month.

Gov. Beverly Perdue liked to say on the campaign trail that she’d made only one promise if elected – to open a satellite governor’s office in Charlotte – because she didn’t want to fail to follow through on any others.
     
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Beverly Perdue has taken the oath of office and is North Carolina’s first female governor.
     
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Pat McCrory and Beverly Perdue will try to rally the faithful and persuade remaining undecided voters in the final full day of campaigning for North Carolina governor.

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CARY, N.C. — Lt. Gov. Beverly Perdue worked to cement her differences with Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory on public education in a televised gubernatorial debate Friday, with the Democrat ticking off her positions on vouchers, community college tuition and catch-phrase initiatives of the past 15 years.
     
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