Vernon Malone

{{short description|American politician from North Carolina}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| image = PC.2096 Vernon Malone.jpg

| name=Vernon Malone

| state_senate=North Carolina

| state=North Carolina

| district= 14th

| term_start= January 1, 2003

| term_end=April 18, 2009

| preceded=Constituency established

| succeeded=Dan Blue[https://archive.today/20090508141917/http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1517127.html News & Observer: Blue to serve out Malone's Senate term]

| party=Democratic

| birth_date= {{birth date|1931|12|20}}

| birth_place= Wake Forest, North Carolina, U.S.

| death_date= {{death date and age|2009|4|18|1931|12|20}}

| death_place=Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.

| alma_mater= Shaw University

| spouse= Susan

| residence= Raleigh, North Carolina

| occupation= School Administrator

}}

Vernon Malone (December 20, 1931 – April 18, 2009) was a Democratic member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state's fourteenth Senate district from 2003 until his death in 2009. His district included constituents in Wake County. A retired teacher and educational administrator from Raleigh, Malone was a graduate of Shaw University and held public offices in Wake County for over three decades.

Malone was born in Wake Forest on December 20, 1931.{{Cite web|url=http://now.capwiz.com/bio/id/132725|title = Capwiz is Unavailable}}

As school board chairman, he presided over the merger of Raleigh city schools and Wake County public schools in 1976. He served as a Wake County commissioner from 1980 until his election to the Senate in 2002.

In the Senate, Malone continued to work in education. He was co-chairman of the Senate's higher education committee and appropriations committee for higher education.

Outside of public office, Malone worked as a classroom teacher and as a school administrator before becoming superintendent of the Governor Morehead School for the blind in Raleigh.

Malone served as vice-chair of Shaw University's board of trustees, as well as a trustee for North Carolina State University, the North Carolina Museum of Art and Wake Education Partnership. He was also a director of Capital Bank, a community bank headquartered in Raleigh.

He was an alumnus of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.

Malone died at his home in Raleigh on April 18, 2009.[http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/4978882/ Sen. Vernon Malone dies at Raleigh home], WRAL-TV, April 18, 2009

The Vernon Malone Career and College Academy, an application-based public school in the Wake County Public School System opened in 2014 and named for the former educator. The school focuses on career and technical education (CTE).