This Year's Award Recipients

NCCJ Honors Jim Melvin and Jim Morgan

National Conference for Community and Justice will honor recipients at 2010 Brotherhood/Sisterhood Citation Award Dinner.

A pair of longtime community leaders has been selected for the 2010 Brotherhood/Sisterhood Citation Award. The Citation Award is given annually by the National Conference for Community and Justice of the Piedmont Triad (NCCJ). Jim Melvin of Greensboro and Jim Morgan of High Point will receive the award at NCCJ’s 44th Annual Citation Award Dinner. The dinner will be held on November 17, 2010 at the Koury Convention Center.

“We are so pleased to honor Jim Morgan and Jim Melvin, two of Guilford County’s most revered public servants, with the 2010 Citation Award,” said Susan Feit, Executive Director of NCCJ. “These two men, one from Greensboro and the other from High Point, have spent decades making Guilford County a place of opportunity and promise.”

Jim Melvin is the President and CEO of the Joseph M. Bryan Foundation of Greater Greensboro. Melvin served the community as mayor of Greensboro from 1971 to 1981, chaired more than a dozen nonprofit and university boards, and currently, chairs Action Greensboro and the Greensboro Partnership. His work spans six decades of service to the Triad community, insuring equitable job and educational opportunities for underserved populations and economic development for the community as a whole. “I am certainly proud to be recognized by such a significant organization as NCCJ and equally proud to be recognized with such an honorable person as Jim Morgan,” Melvin said, when notified of the award.

Jim Morgan, managing partner and attorney with Morgan Herring in High Point, has also provided decades of service to our community. Morgan’s work includes three terms in the NC House of Representatives, as well as leadership for more than sixty community organizations, among those the North Carolina Jaycees, United Way of North Carolina, and Legal Aid in NC. Morgan was the founding chairman of the High Point Community Foundation and the Guilford Education Alliance. Additionally, he served several terms as a member of the NCCJ Board of Directors. "NCCJ is an organization my family and I respect and admire,” Morgan shared. “We are honored to be recognized with Jim Melvin and the past recipients with this important award."

The Citation Award winners are selected based on their service and commitment to a just and inclusive Piedmont Triad community. The honorees should strive to improve the quality of life and the state of human relations for everyone; care deeply about people; and work to transform our community so the Piedmont Triad is a better place. Jim Melvin and Jim Morgan will be honored at the 44th Annual Brotherhood/Sisterhood Citation Award Dinner, NCCJ’s largest fundraising program. Chairpersons for the 2010 Citation Award Dinner are Shirley and Henry Frye. The Fryes were honored with the Brotherhood/Sisterhood Citation Award in 1990.