Commissioner Rob Zapple was elected to the New Hanover County Board of Commissioners in 2014, was re-elected in 2018 and again in 2022. He is currently serving on the Board of Directors of the Cape Fear Public Utility Authority, the Lower Cape Fear Water and Sewer Authority, Trillium Health Resources, NHC Local Reentry Council and Wilmington Downtown Incorporated, a City/County economic development organization. He was recently appointed by North Carolina Governor Cooper to the North Carolina Building Code Council.
Commissioner Zapple is an active member of the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners (NCACC) and the National Association of Counties (NACo). He was appointed to the NCACC’s Legislative Goals Committee in 2016 and is a member of NACo’s Environment, Energy and Land Use Steering and the Resilient Counties Committees. Commissioner Zapple has achieved Practitioner Level status at the Local Elected Leaders Academy (LELA), a partnership between the NCACC and the School of Government at UNC Chapel Hill, offering elected officials the education and skills they need to lead and govern their communities.
Commissioner Zapple is a graduate of the University of Virginia. He and his wife, Michele have three children who attended public schools in New Hanover County and have all graduated from North Carolina universities.
