Peggy Ann Poole Norton

Background

Norton, Peggy Ann Poole was born on July 1, 1938 in Sanford, North Carolina, United States. Daughter of Robert Bloom and Alma Ann (Luck) Poole.

Education

Family Nurse Practitioner, Watts School Nursing, 1973.

Career

Staff nurse, Pitt County Memorial Hospital, Greenville, North Carolina, 1959-1961; pediatric office nurse, Greenville, 1961-1963; staff nurse, U. North Carolina Infirmary, Chapel Hill, 1963-1965; assistant director nurses, Gravely Sanatorium for Tuberculosis, Chapel Hill, 1965-1967; supervisor, Martha Jefferson Hospital, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1967-1968; surgical office nurse, Charlottesville, 1968-1969; staff nurse, Richmond (Virginia) Memorial Hospital, 1969; supervisor, Cape Fear Valley Hospital, Fayetteville, North Carolina, 1970-1972; staff nurse emergency room, North Carolina Memorial Hospital, Chapel Hill, 1972; physician extender, U. North Carolina Student Health Svc., Chapel Hill, 1973-1998; retired, U. North Carolina Student Health Svc., Chapel Hill, 1998. Member various committees at U. North Carolina, including rape awareness committee since 1986, rape response plan committee since 1990, member task force on dating and relationship violence, 1994. Lecturer in field.

Achievements

• Peggy Ann Poole Norton has been listed as a noteworthy Nurse by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Past member South Orange Rescue Squad. Board directors Planned Parenthood of Orange County, 1987-1988, medical advisory board, 1985-1988. Board directors Parkwood Homeowners Association, 1985-1986, Rape Crisis Center, 1991.

Member North Carolina Nurses Association (numerous offices including board directors 1981-1983,district board directors 1978-1982, chair commission on practice 1981-1983, chair various committees), Nurse Practitioners in N.c. (vice chair and chair).

Connections

Married Jerry Lee Norton, June 14, 1958 (divorced June 1968).

Father:

Robert Bloom Poole

Mother:

Alma Ann (Luck) Poole

Spouse:

Jerry Lee Norton