Beverly Perdue
Beverly Eaves Perdue is the current lieutenant governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina .
Born in Grundy, Virginia , Perdue earned a bachelor's degreefrom the University of Kentucky ; she then earned amaster's degree in education and a doctoral degree in administration from the University of Florida . She worked in the fields of education and health care before enteringpolitics.
Perdue, a Democrat , served in the North Carolina House ofRepresentatives from 1986 to 1990 , and the North Carolina Senate from 1990 to 2000 . In 2000 , she successfullychallenged Republican Betsy Cochrane for the lieutenant governor's seat, becoming North Carolina's first female lieutenantgovernor.
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