Governor Pat McCrory appointed Kinston native, Stephanie Quinn Morris, as an at-large member of the Tryon Palace Commission through 2017.
The daughter of Owen and Julia Quinn, Morris has resided in the New Bern area since 1995.
She is a 1986 North Carolina Scholar, National Merit Scholar and graduate of Kinston High School.
In 1990, Morris earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from ECU. That same year, she was named Miss Kinston/Lenoir County and competed in the Miss North Carolina pageant, a Miss America Program.
Morris began graduate school in the Master of Business Administration program at ECU that fall, but her studies were cut short by a job offer from “America’s Funniest People,” which led to work in Los Angeles in television production at NBC and the Disney Channel, as well as others.
Her career on the West Coast culminated in a position as a talent agent with Century Artists, Ltd. in Beverly Hills, where she represented more than 80 actors for television and film.
After meeting New Bern businessman, Kenny Morris, whom she married in 1997, and with whom she now has two daughters, she returned to Eastern North Carolina, and worked for more than a decade as physician recruitment coordinator for Lenoir Memorial Hospital.
She has active North Carolina licenses in property and casualty, life, accident and health, and Medicare supplement insurance.
A member of First Presbyterian Church, Morris has previously served as a board member of the Craven Arts Council and Gallery, and a volunteer in the New Bern/Craven County 300th Anniversary Celebrations.
She currently serves on the board of the Dunes Club in Atlantic Beach and, most recently, as a gubernatorial appointee to the Tryon Palace Commission.
Morris is also an active parent at Arendell Parrott Academy, where she coaches middle school girls’ basketball, and has chaired the annual talent show for the past seven years.
