N.C. Commissioner of Labor Josh Dobson is a 2005 Alumnus
BOILING SPRINGS, N.C.—Gardner-Webb Alumnus and N.C. Commissioner of Labor Josh Dobson is the featured speaker for the December 2024 Commencement program at Gardner-Webb University. The University’s graduation ceremony will take place on Friday, Dec. 13, at 9 a.m. in the Lutz-Yelton Convocation Center.
“I am honored and excited to be speaking at commencement,” said Dobson, who was sworn in as North Carolina’s 18th labor commissioner on Jan. 2, 2021, after serving eight years in the state House of Representatives. Dobson represented the 85th district covering Avery, McDowell and Mitchell counties located in the western part of the state.
Gardner-Webb President Dr. William M. Downs noted, “It is appropriate that as we send hundreds of new GWU graduates out into the workforce that we hear from our state’s Commissioner of Labor. Josh Dobson is a Gardner-Webb product, and he is especially well positioned to speak to the Class of ’24 about what lies ahead for them in the world of work. We look forward to having one of our own—an alumnus who rose to serve in the Council of State—return home and provide remarks at Commencement.”…