Ex-Insurance Commissioner Goodwin is NC's next DMV chief
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Wayne Goodwin, a longtime leader in North Carolina government and state Democratic Party politics, was named the next Division of Motor Vehicles commissioner on Friday. Goodwin, the elected state insurance commissioner from 2009 to 2017 and a former state House member, succeeds Torrie Jessup, who left in November to become chief operating officer at the Department of Information Technology, according to a news release.