Sally Greene

Biography

A native of Gilmer, Texas, Sally Greene has called Orange County home for three decades. Prior to her election to the Board of County Commissioners in 2018, during three terms on the Chapel Hill Town Council, she demonstrated policy expertise in housing and community development, homeless support, criminal justice reform, and public and cultural arts. She was instrumental in the creation of the Orange County Partnership to End Homelessness. She is a member of the board of directors of the Community Home Trust. Sally holds a J.D. from George Washington University and a Ph.D. in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She works as an associate attorney at BalBrenner, P.C., Carrboro, where her practice is limited to federal cases. Previous positions include work as research and writing specialist for a trial law firm in Raleigh, where cases ranged from personal injury to civil rights to land use. As an independent scholar, her most recent scholarship has been devoted to recovering lost and neglected stories about slavery and freedom in nineteenth-century North Carolina. She is married to Paul Jones, a clinical professor in the School of Information and Library Science at UNC-Chapel Hill. They have been parishioners of St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church in Hillsborough since 1992. Their son Tucker Jones—who credits Carrboro High with setting his sights on foreign policy—is a senior program associate with the International Republican Institute, in Washington, D.C.