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The Hon. Kitty Barnes
Commissioner, Catawba County, N.C.
About The Hon. Kitty Barnes
Commissioner Kitty Barnes has been a Catawba County Commissioner since 1998. Within NACo, she chairs the Resilient Counties Advisory Board, is vice chair of the Environment, Energy and Land Use Steering Committee and is a member of the Financial Services Center Advisory Board. She served as North Carolina Association of County Commissioners (NCACC) president in 2005-06, and was named the NCACC’s Outstanding County Commissioner in 2007. In 2016, she was inducted into the NCACC Hall of Fame.