A native of Robbinsville, North Carolina, Carolyn is a graduate of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (1974), Phi Kappa Phi, and received her law degree from the University of North Carolina Law School at Chapel Hill (1999). She is married to Orville D. Coward, Jr., an attorney with Coward, Hicks and Siler, P.A.

Favorite Food: Mexican

Favorite Artists: WNC artists – Craig Forrest, Roger Stephens

Favorite Music: Bob Dylan

Favorite Book/Author: Any book by Dostoevsky or Tolstoy

Favorite Movie: Anything by the Coen Brothers

Most Recently Visited: London

Guilty Pleasures: Designing and furnishing interior spaces

Community Involvement

• Buncombe County Chamber of Commerce Healthcare Roundtable, 2004-present
• Board of Visitors – University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004-present
• Howell Foundation (Educational Scholarships), 2005-present
• Morehead Foundation (Educational Scholarships), 2007