Gov. Roy Cooper Gov. Roy Cooper has nominated Eric Davis, the State Board of Education chairman and Alan Duncan, the board’s vice chairman, for new eight-year terms. Cooper also nominated Melody Chalmers McClain, a Cumberland County Schools assistant superintendent and Ronald Hargrave, former superintendent of Scotland County Schools to serve on the board that oversees North Carolina’s K-12 public schools. The General Assembly must confirm the nominations. McClain would replace Olivia Oxendine, a Pat McCrory appointee who has represented the Sandhills or 4th educational district since 2013. Hargrave would fill an at-large vacancy. Here are brief bios shared Thursday in a press release from Cooper’s office: