
Previously superintendent at Durham Correctional Center, Kornegay succeeds the retired George “J” Haynes.
Beginning her corrections career as an accountant in 1983 at the N.C. Correctional Institution for Women in Raleigh, Kornegay advanced to superintendent at Umstead Correctional Center in Butner in 2006. Kornegay had been superintendent at Durham Correctional Center since December 2009.