Page 14 - The FayettevillePress newspaper December 2024 Holiday Edition

Page 14 The Fayetteville Press December 2024 Holiday Edition

Cumberland County Register of Deeds Retires

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. – Cumberland County Register of
Deeds J. Lee Warren Jr. retired after more than 30 years serving as an
elected official in Cumberland County. Warren was recognized in a
retirement ceremony Nov. 19, held in the Judge E. Maurice Braswell
Cumberland County Courthouse. The ceremony was attended by past
and present Cumberland County Commissioners, County Manage-
ment Team members and employees, N.C. Courts officials, N.C.
Registers of Deeds from throughout the state and other dignitaries.
Warren’s service in public office began in 1992 when he was
elected to the Cumberland County Board of Commissioners. He was
re-elected twice and served as chairman three times. Warren was ap-
pointed to the office of Register of Deeds in May 2003 while he was
serving as a Cumberland County Commissioner. Warren was then
elected in 2008, and re-elected in 2012, 2016 and 2020.
During his administration as Register of Deeds, Warren imple-
mented instant land record recording and initiated the massive task of
digitizing vital records dating back to 1754, making them accessible
online.
Warren served as President of the North Carolina Register of
Deeds Association in 2012 and was awarded the Eunice Ayers Award
in 2013, the association’s most prestigious award.
Under Warren’s leadership, the Register of Deeds office received
the iGO Innovator Award in 2019. Warren, who is also a talented
artist, designed the winning cover for the North Carolina Guidebook
for Registers of Deeds (11th edition) in2022.
“Lee Warren’s unwavering dedication to Cumberland County Cumberland County Register of Deeds J. Lee Warren Jr., surrounded by family, friends and colleagues, is honored at a retirement ceremony
has made a lasting impact on our community,” said Board of Commis- and reception held in the Judge E. Maurice Braswell Cumberland County Courthouse Nov. 19.
sioners Chairman Glenn Adams. “His leadership and innovative con-
tributions to both the Board of Commissioners and the Register of A lifelong resident of Cumberland County, Warren is a graduate of Methodist College and completed the International
Deeds office have set a standard of excellence that will be felt for Association of Clerks, Recorders, Election Officers and Treasurers Certificate of Public Leadership program from George Wash-
years to come. On behalf of the Board of Commissioners, we thank ington University in 2016.
Lee for his decades of service and wish him the very best in his well- Senior Assistant Register of Deeds Andra Brewington filed for Register of Deeds office and was elected Nov. 5. Brewington
deserved retirement.” has been with the Cumberland County Register of Deeds since 1996. She will be sworn in Dec. 2.
Learn more about the Cumberland County Register of Deeds at ccrod.org.

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