Meet our Administrative Assistant, Carla Windham. Carla obtained her AAS degree in Secretarial Science from Pamlico Community College and immediately began her career with a New Bern, NC, law firm. She later joined a civil engineering firm, also in New Bern, where she worked four years until transferring to the home office in Chapel Hill, NC. It was then that she went back to school nights and obtained an AAS degree in Business Administration. For more than 16 years, she worked in civil engineering as Administrative Assistant to the President and/or Vice President.

After moving to the area, Carla began work with Pearsall Operating Company in 1987 and transferred over to First Carolina Management, Inc. when it was formed in 1989. She has been employed with the company for 24 years as its Administrative Assistant providing assistance to the President, Executive Vice President/COO and Director of Sales & Marketing. Offering support to several parties frequently requires multi-tasking while also serving as the telephone operator/receptionist. Duties include such tasks as preparing contracts, employment advertisements and offer letters; generating correspondence; making travel arrangements; collecting reports weekly for running updates; handling reservations for hotel owners; preparing minutes from owners' meetings; ordering flowers Company-wide, etc.

Carla lives in Nashville, North Carolina, with husband Ken where they raised their two sons, Eric and Matthew. Matthew and wife Lori have recently blessed them with their first grandbaby, Bonnie Marie.