Richmond Community College has named a six-person panel to search for a new president.

The Board of Trustees voted Monday to name a search committee to replace outgoing President Sharon Morrissey.

Trustees serving on the presidential search committee are J.C. Lamm, Jim McCaskill, Joyce McDow, Claudia Robinette, Glenn Sumpter, and Bert Unger. Lamm will chair the committee.

Morrissey announced late last week that she was leaving RCC to serve as the North Carolina Community College system’s next senior vice president and chief academic officer. Morrissey will assume her new role on March 1.

The position was left vacant by the retirement of Dr. Delores Parker. The decision to hire Morrissey was made by the state board last week.

“The Personnel Committee believes Dr. Morrissey’s leadership will be a catalyst for continued and future success in North Carolina Community Colleges’ Academic Programs and Student Services,” Dr. Linwood Powell, committee chair said in a statement. “And we are grateful for the excellent service of Dr. Delores Parker, who has given her professional life to our colleges and who never accepted anything less than the best from anyone who walked through the open doors.”

Morrissey began as president of Richmond Community College on Feb. 1, 2008.

Morrissey has served for more than a decade in academic, instructional and student-support services positions at community colleges, first as vice president of academic and student services at Fayetteville Tech and then as vice president of instructional services at Asheville-Buncombe Technical Community College. Additionally, she has served as acting vice president for Academic and Student Services, as well as associate vice president for Academic and Student Services in the system office.