COLLEGE principal Sarah Farley has been appointed Deputy Lieutenant of County Durham.
She will help Lord-Lieutenant Sir Paul Nicholson in his work as Her Majesty's personal representative in the county.
Ms Farley, 40, will support charitable and voluntary organisations and take an interest in the commercial, social and spiritual life of the area.
A spokesman for the Lord Lieutenant's office said she had been selected because of the services to education she had carried out in Darlington.
Ms Farley became principal and chief executive of Darlington College of Technology in 2001, one of the youngest in the country, after serving for four years as its director of curriculum.
She said: "It is a real privilege and honour to be asked to serve as a Deputy Lieutenant and support the good work that goes on in this county in this way"
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