Hall has been named to the N.C. School Boards Association’s honorary All-State School Board, a prestigious award for school board members.

But the work that earned her a spot on the eight-member honorary board, she said this week, is work done by the entire Kannapolis school system.

And it’s an honor she shares with other Kannapolis school board members, administrators, teachers, students and parents.

“Certainly, I am very humbled,” she said. “I was just a small part in this ... and I accept it on behalf of all those folks.”

The Kannapolis school board unanimously nominated Hall for the honor.

Judges from education, business and industry selected the all-state board from among 26 people nominated by their boards for the association’s Raleigh Dingman Award.

The selections are “blind,” meaning the association deletes references to the nominees’ identities and where they are from before the judges consider them.

Ed Dunlap, the association’s executive director, called Hall “a tireless and capable promoter of public education” in announcing her selection to the honorary board.

A Kannapolis school board member since 1978, Hall was a member of the school system’s first elected board and its first female member.

Her 21 years of experience have helped guide Kannapolis schools and the board, said eight-year member and current chairman Lee Efird.

“She’s certainly been quite an asset, not only to the board, but to me as an individual board member,”he said. “She always gets in, rolls up her sleeves and goes to work.”

A retired nurse and current N.C. School Boards Association board of directors member, Hall said the real honor is serving her own community.