(919) 348-9726

pmiller-foushee@townofchapelhill.org

Term of Service

2021-2025

Bio

Paris Miller-Foushee is serving in her first term on Town Council. She currently works at the Inter-Faith Council for Social Service, developing the next generation of leaders to engage in and serve community. She has served as the Vice-Chair of the Town’s Community Police Advisory Committee and on the Steering Committee of the Re-Imagining Community Safety Task Force. She serves on the workgroup of the Campus & Community Coalition which is in partnership between the University, Downtown District and neighborhoods to reduce the harms associated with high-risk drinking.

In 2021, she was sworn in as the Secretary of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP. She’s on the board of EmPOWERment, Inc. and the Marian Cheek Jackson Center where she advocates for housing education and justice, affordable housing management, and community engagement. She has first-hand knowledge of what representation and community do to uplift those in our society who are often left in the margins.

She works with the Orange County Community Remembrance Coalition in coordination with the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) of Montgomery, Alabama to carry out a multi-year project to recognize the victims and survivors of racial terror.

She earned her BA in English from the University of NC at Greensboro and her MA in English and MA in School Administration from NC Central University. She was an English Professor at St. Augustine’s University in Raleigh before moving abroad for four years with her family to Abu Dhabi, UAE. Overseas she taught at an American curriculum school as an English teacher.

Paris and her husband, who is a Chapel Hill native of eight generations, are raising their son in their family’s ancestral home in the Historic Northside community. She currently homeschools her son and is a part of an amazing homeschooling community. To relax, she enjoys reading, eating ice cream, and camping.

She is a member of the Chapel Hill Mu Omicron Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha, Sorority Inc.®, and is committed to upholding the mission to be of “Service to All Mankind.”

Membership

• Community Design Commission
• Environmental Stewardship Advisory Board
• Justice in Action Committee
• Parks, Greenways, and Recreation Commission

Duties

The primary mission of the Mayor and Council, as the governing body of the Town is to adopt and provide for the execution of ordinances, rules and regulations as may be necessary or appropriate to protect health, life or property, or to promote the comfort, convenience, security, good order, better government, or the general welfare of the Town and its citizens.

The Mayor and eight Council Members constitute the governing body of the Town. In accordance with the Town’s Charter, the voters elect a Mayor every two years. Council Members are elected to four-year, staggered terms on an at-large basis. Town Council duties include:

• Amendment of previously adopted policies through changes in the Town Code of Ordinances and the Development Ordinance, and by revision of policies and documents.
• Appointment of advisory boards, commissions, task forces and committees.
• Appointment of the Town Manager and Town Attorney.
• Establishment of agreements with other governments.