Davis, a 30-year NCAE veteran, is a former member of the Executive Committee of the National Education Association and the North Carolina State Board of Education.  He has served as president and Association Representative of two local associations.  He is also a past chair of the NCAE Constitution and NCAE Membership Committees.  

In addition to his post on the NEA Executive Committee, he has served as chair of the NEA Annual Meeting Review Committee and as a liaison between the NEA and the Resolutions Committee of Education International.  

Davis served a six year term on the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and he also served on the National Test Panel, which formulated the original specifications for former President Bill Clinton's proposed national tests for fourth-grade reading and eighth-grade math.

Davis received the Durham Jaycees "Outstanding Young Educator" award in 1988 and was tapped the "Teacher of the Year" for the Weldon City Schools in 1978.  

In 1985, Davis was a part of a humanitarian team of citizens who visited drought-stricken Tanzania under the sponsorship of Raleigh's WRAL Television. During the 1987 Christmas holiday break, he led a group of high school students on a "12-Day Walk Across North Carolina" to raise awareness and money for the Kidney Foundation. For these and other endeavors, Davis received the NCAE Human Relations Award.  

In 1989, Davis helped a group of Hillside High School students to make a slight change in the United States Constitution. The students convinced the North Carolina General Assembly to retroactively ratify the 24th Amendment, which outlawed the poll tax. After successfully lobbying this legislative change, Davis and the students were authorized by the North Carolina Secretary of State to present the ratified bill to the chief librarian of the United States Archives. All official copies of the Constitution now offer a footnote indicating the date of North Carolina's ratification of this amendment.  

For his achievements in the classroom, he has been recognized by The News and Observer as a "Tarheel of the Week" and has also received the "Citizen of the Year" award from the Independent Weekly, a weekly newspaper covering the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area.  Davis is active in the work of the Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People and the People's Alliance of Durham. 

He received his B.A. in English from Elizabeth City State University and teacher certification from North Carolina Wesleyan College.  
 
 

Eddie Davis, III
NCAE President
NCAE Center
P.O. Box 27347
Raleigh, N.C. 27611
800/662-7924 x.200
eddie.davis@ncae.org